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Got your IT department's heads in the cloud yet?

Well according to Unisys, that is where your head should be. They announced the results of two online polls; the first of which found that cloud computing (44%) ranks as organizations’ biggest priority for IT investment in 2011 – followed by support for mobile/end-user devices (24%) and cyber security (17%). The second poll found that 88% of respondents said their organizations was planning some kind of cloud, with close to half (45%) citing a private cloud.

These results complement a number of recent findings by other recently conducted surveys:

·         Gartner’s 2011 CIO Agenda Survey which found CIOs expect to adopt new cloud services much faster than originally expected. Currently, 3 percent of CIOs have the majority of IT running in the cloud or on SaaS technologies, a number which is expected to increase to 43% over the next four years; the following represents the top 10 business and technology findings from this survey:

·         Unisys’ 2011 Technology Predictions which ranked cloud computing (and more specifically private clouds) as one of the top 6 technology trends, signaling that 2011 will be the year of practicality as organizations turn to technology to make their employees more productive and their mission-critical systems more secure and cost-efficient.

In case you have not noticed, all of the large IT vendors are make a big move into offering competitive cloud services.

Cross posted from myITview.com

Comments (3)

	1. 02-01-2011 15:56
	I find it interesting how Cloud Computing and Infrastructure are so far apart on the Technology Priority ranking; the definition of Cloud Computing is nebulous but one would think the topics of Cloud and Infrastructure are intertwined. Registered

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	2. 02-01-2011 16:51
	Good point. It's also interesting how much Web 2.0 has slipped from 3rd in last year's ranking to 10th this year. Will the same thing happen to cloud computing? Here's the link to last year's survey: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1283413 Registered

Mark Henricks

	3. 02-06-2011 21:32
	It seems to me that this is more of a result of buzz marketing then it is for practically implementing a true Cloud solution. Lets be honest there is not any new great technology which has come out in the last year that was not available last year or the year before. The only difference is that the Cloud is getting a lot of publicity as a term this year. We will see what it is called next year.    -sean Registered

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