- MNC's Uptake of Cloud Services Increases by Over 60 Per Cent in the Last Year
- Asia-Pacific is Expressing the Greatest Interest in Cloud, Reporting 63 Per Cent Uptake
- Trust in Telecommunications Providers as Credible Suppliers for Cloud Services has Increased by 30 Per Cent Since April 2010
- 75 Per Cent of MNCs see Scalability of Capacity as a Key Strategic Benefit, with Retailers and Services Companies Placing Most Emphasis on its Importance
- Cable&Wireless Worldwide Unveils Flexible Computing, its Enterprise-grade Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
A survey of more than 100 global multinational corporations (MNCs) across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific by Ovum for Cable&Wireless Worldwide reveals that adoption of cloud services is picking up pace among large organisations, with telecoms providers well positioned to take advantage. Cloud services adoption is up 61 per cent from April 2010 with 45 per cent of MNCs already using cloud sourcing for at least some elements of key IT services.
Asia-Pacific MNCs are reporting the greatest cloud interest, with 63 per cent uptake across all cloud services categories; networking, communications, applications, corporate IT systems, as well as data management, security and backup.
Across the globe enterprises have already moved significant resources to the cloud and are ready to move more application services. The dominant areas of cloud services uptake are in data backup and storage, at 51 per cent of respondents, with an additional 33 per cent reporting their intention to procure cloud data backup and storage services in the next 24 months. Cloud uptake is permeating all sectors. Finance and insurance multinationals have adopted cloud services for some elements of corporate IT systems (56 per cent), whereas manufacturing is embracing cloud components for networking and data management (63 per cent and 59 per cent, respectively).
Multinationals' Deployment of Cloud Services Soars
