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What are the top three drivers of cloud adoption?


October 9, 2012 By

Answer: cost management, agility and time to market

According to a new survey of 252 cloud users, providers, consultants and integrators by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and IT certification group ISACA, we're still about three years away from feeling the cloud's full impact.

Respondents ranked the leading drivers of cloud adoption (based on a scale of one to five, the average score is below), which are:

  1. Cost management (3.77)
  2. Agility (3.75)
  3. Time to market 3.73)
  4. Efficiency (3.65)
  5. Productivity (3.61)
  6. Business unit demand (3.55)
  7. Resilience (3.52)
  8. New technology (3.46)
  9. Customer demand (3.42)
  10. Technical resources( 3.37)
  11. New markets (3.33)


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