A survey has revealed that most businesses recognise that cloud computing will be their top investment priority in 2012.
Fifty percent of respondents to a recent Unisys online poll said cloud computing is their top IT investment priority for 2012. This is the second straight year respondents to a Unisys poll named cloud as the chief priority for IT investments in the coming year.
In a similar poll conducted in December 2010 and January 2011, 44 percent of 262 respondents said cloud computing topped their IT priority list for 2011. The more recent poll, which drew 300 responses, was conducted on the company’s website in September and October 2011.
Other respondents to the poll listed cyber-security (21 percent), mobile/social computing (21 percent) and big data (8 percent) as their top 2012 IT priorities.
The company advises clients interested in the cloud to take a “hybrid enterprise” approach, integrating the cloud solution with existing IT resources and managing the integrated environment as a single entity. By doing so, they can preserve and capitalise on existing IT investments while avoiding “cloud in a corner” syndrome, where new cloud-based solutions are disconnected from existing IT resources, resulting in duplication of processes and higher operating costs, Lacey said.
Unisys recently announced version 2 of its Secure Private Cloud platform, the company’s cloud solution for clients’ and cloud service providers’ data centres. The enhanced solution incorporates enhancements to the core software stack, as well as expanded management, security and infrastructure automation capabilities.
The platform also uses a usage metering capability that collects information on utilisation of IT resources, such as processors, memory, I/O and storage. The system then allocates the charges back to the business organisations that use them.
Each business group pays only for the resources it uses.
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