If there was still someone who did not know of the existence of something revolutionary known under the name of Cloud Computing, now with the announcement of Apple iCloud surely in everyone’s mind this Buzz Word, now a term sold off and mistreated by most, will be present.
iCloud ranks among the Cloud storage systems with 5GB of free space. To see the presentation, however, it looks more like a syncing system than a storage system.
Cloud.com surveyed more than 500 users about cloud computing usage trends and preferences for virtual infrastructure deployments. The results of this survey are presented in the infographic below.
Most respondents believe that the great benefit of cloud computing is the savings in hardware.
Nearly 70 percent say they use open source software whenever possible.
The factors driving the adoption of cloud computing are scalability, cost savings, easier management, greater flexibility, and improved hardware utilization.
