3 Surprising Trends Among ‘Pacesetter’ Cloud Adopters

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Ellis Booker.

Line of business decisionmakers are more interested in cloud computing’s strategic potential than are their IT counterparts. That was one of the surprises in IBM’s latest global research into the cloud-computing phenomenon. The survey, released in late October, involved 800 companies in 13 countries and 24 industries. LOB executives are embracing software-, platform-, and infrastructure-as-a-service more quickly than their IT peers, the survey found.

"Three years from now, 72% of the people we surveyed in the line of business believe it’s going to be ‘strategically important’ to transforming their companies," said IBM’s VP of cloud services Ric Telford, who teased some of the research’s top-level findings during his keynote at last month’s Cloud Connect conference in Chicago…

The majority of IT leaders, some 58%, also believe in cloud’s impact, the survey found. Today, IT is ahead of LOB on this dimension, 49% to 34%. The IBM survey segmented respondents into three groups: Chasers, Challengers, and Pacesetters…

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