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Who’s Using the Cloud and How? Who Knows. This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

Who is using the cloud, and how, has been a hot topic for some time, but getting any reliable numbers is no easy feat. That's why I view the latest cloud computing adoption predictions by Forrester and Gartner with a skeptical eye. […]

Question of the Week

How reliable are cloud adoption surveys?

Featured Responses

  1. Rodrigo Flores
    2009/10/21 at 13:08
    If we think of cloud as an operating model, I'm seeing great interest in the adoption among newScale's customer base. What they want to do is to enable self-service catalog that abstracts the services IT provides, presents a clear consumption charge and reports. These services are physical dedicated, virtual dedicated, virtual shared and externally provided by an MSP or Hosting company. This is real stuff that is operating right now. But, this is a huge change in how IT does business so it will take a while for all moving parts to look like the nirvana vision of cloud.
  2. Rich Miller
    2009/07/15 at 16:35
    The definitions for 'cloud hosting', 'cloud computing' and so forth are not yet agreed upon by the various analysts, much less the population they're surveying.

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