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MHT's Emerging Technologies Forum: Health IT and the Cloud
More than half of U.S. enterprises now consider cloud computing a viable technology, with favorable views on cloud jumping by more than 50 percent in just a year, according to the Boston market research firm Yankee Group.
The information technology-oriented research house said in a report that “cloud computing is on the cusp of broad enterprise adoption.”
A year ago, less than 37 percent of enterprises told Yankee Group that they saw cloud computing as an enabler. In the most recent survey of 400 enterprises, those seeing the concept as a business enabler had jumped to 60 percent.
Other findings in the report included only 17 percent of respondents saying that they view Amazon and Google as trusted cloud partners, with more companies favoring IT providers such as IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co.’s EDS, Cisco Systems Inc. and VMware; and most enterprises preferring private clouds. That reflects sentiment expressed at Mass High Tech’s “Health IT and the Cloud” forum held in June.
In April, Yankee Group announced that it had received $10 million in funding from its primary owner, Alta Communications of Boston, and that CEO Emily Nagle Green was searching for a new CEO, with Green remaining as chairman while she focused on evangelism and external market work.
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