Today, everything seems to be moving into the cloud. In 2005, investment in cloud computing was about $26 million. But in 2009, the investment grew to $370 million, more than 10 times of what was invested in 2005.
What is most impressive is Gartner’s prediction that investment will soar to a whopping $148 billion by 2013.
So why are so much money being poured into cloud computing? And how are companies using cloud and virtualization technologies?
To answer that, Zenoss conducted a survey in the second quarter of 2010 to determine usage trends among IT professionals. The results are collated from responses of 204 individuals as to their usage of virtualization and cloud computing technologies.
Highlights from the survey include:
- 41% indicated that they preferred to deploy servers virtually, 29% indicated they used virtualization whenever possible
- The leading virtualization technology used by respondents was VMware that was in use by 79% of survey respondents who were using virtualization
- 43% of participants indicated flexibility as the reason for using virtualization while 33% indicated hardware savings as a reason for using the technology
- The number one stated goal with regards to virtual infrastructure was Cost Savings (64%) followed by Deployment Control specifically controlling virtual sprawl
- Security was the number one concern for cloud computing followed by management and monitoring
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