Cloud Computing Research

The more you do it, the better it gets. That's the message from the RightScale 2013 State of the Cloud Report, which the cloud management vendor released today. The survey of 625 people in development, IT and business roles showed that as organizations embrace more cloud services and applications, the benefits and values promised by cloud computing increase....More

Maybe it's starting to sound like a cliche, but businesses are increasingly turning to cloud computing for their IT needs. A report from cloud services broker Jamcracker reinforces that fact, and according to the study, small and medium enterprises are finding themselves working with cloud services brokers more frequently to fulfill their businesses' needs....More

Cloud outages are never going to go away. The minute the IT downtime problem is solved, we'll all have to find something else to complain about, after all. But still, unexpected cloud downtime remains one of the larger pain points cloud skeptics point to when they get their hackles up regarding cloud computing....More

Cloud adoption is on the rise, but according to the results of a survey conducted by OneLogin, there are a lot of naughty end-users out there. As 78 percent of organizations surveyed said they planned to increase the number of cloud apps they have in 2013, 71 percent admitted to using unsanctioned apps....More

There was a time few enterprises would have expected to have their mission-critical applications running in the cloud, but that seems to be changing. Recent research released by SailPoint indicates that one in three enterprise mission-critical apps are currently in the cloud. Perhaps even more surprising is SailPoint expects that ratio to jump up to one in two by 2015. SailPoint interviewed 200 business leaders responsible for various key business departments and 200 IT decision-makers at businesses with at least 5,000 employees for its 2012 SailPoint Market Pulse Survey....More