TENAFLY, N.J. – No business can avoid ?the cloud.? Some embrace cloud based services with enthusiasm as a formal way of delivering all or part of a given organization?s IT requirements, whilst others grudgingly accept them because it is near impossible to stop individual users or lines of business from building them in to business processes.
A recent Quocirca research report ? ?The adoption of cloud based services? ? exposed some striking differences between those with attitudes that lie at these two ends of the spectrum with regard to attitude to cloud based services. The research identified four main groupings ranging from ?enthusiasts? who belief they should use cloud services whenever possible (22percent of the sample), through to ?avoiders? that make little use of them (23 percent).
An analysis of the enthusiasts versus avoiders shows that the latter lack confidence in their ability to secure the use of cloud services rather than dismissing them outright as a way to deliver their IT requirements. To overcome these concerns they need to take a leaf out of the enthusiasts? book.
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