Nearly 60 per cent of European CIOs are already using cloud services – even if they don’t realise it. That’s according to a new survey from IDC which found that the use of cloud services was more prevalent than had been expected.
The revelation was particularly revealing given that 50 per cent of the same CIOs said they were not using cloud services when asked a more general question – and about a third say they won’t be using cloud computing within the next five years. However, the results change when they’re asked about specific products. This suggests some CIOs weren’t aware that some of the technologies they were using were actually cloud technologies.
High priorities on CIOs’ shopping list of technologies include virtualisation, although security is not far behind, with storage management third on the list.
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