As I mentioned on Tuesday, I’m dedicating 100-days worth of research sessions to explore “enterprise cloud computing considerations”. My first topic is adoption trends:
- What are organizations doing, or planning to do, with cloud computing?
- What types of cloud computing environments are being used, considered and/or ignored?
- What industries are leading and lagging adoption?
- What use cases are being fulfilled, in part or in full, by cloud computing offerings?
- What are the major drivers and expectations?
To get started, I’m surveying the cloud computing surveys. Certainly, I expect to see security noted as a big concern, and operating expense versus capital outlay as a driver. In fact, I’ll cover each of those points in later days, as business risk and economic considerations, respectively. What I’m looking for in my survey of the surveys are observations, trends and even predictions, beyond the headlines.
[Written hours later] Admittedly, one thing I didn’t factor in was the time consuming survey weeding process. I’ve narrowed the body of work by date, source and depth of available information. As a result, I’ll be reviewing the following surveys/papers:
- MWD Advisors: Success with Cloud Computing: a survey of IT architects 2H09 [related video]
- Forrester: EAs are Seeing the Beginnings of Cloud’s Impact on IT
- Google Communications Intelligence Report, October 2009
- Rackspace: No More Servers, November 2009
- BTGS Enterprise Intelligence Research Report, November 2009
- F5 Networks Cloud Computing Survey, June- July 2009 [pdf link]
- Kelton Research for Avanade: Early 2009 [pdf link] and October 2009, related analysis from Joe McKendrick
- CIO Magazine, June 2009: article and report download
- IBM Global CIO Study, 2009
- Economist Cloud Computing Debate, Nov 2009 [pdf link]
- ReliaCloud SMB Cloud Computing Survey, June-July 2009: press release, survey results registration <– Survey added to list on January 19, 2010
Given the heft of the list, I’ll be sharing insights as I go. If you have other suggestions, do let me know. As well, if a finding in any of the above strikes you as important, surprising, or ridiculous, please share.
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There was a national survey launched by ReliaCloud this past June in which 150 business executives and IT decision-makers were interviewed for their thoughts on cloud computing. It is worth a quick look. You can download it for free at http://www.reliacloud.com/cloudcomputingsurvey/.