IBM CIO Study 2011 Reveals Thousands Of Companies To Embrace Cloud Computing

A new IBM study of more than 3,000 global CIOs (Chief Information Officers) shows that 60 percent of organizations are ready to embrace cloud computing over the next five years as a means of growing their businesses and achieving competitive advantage.

#-Link-Snipped-#The figure has nearly doubled the number of CIOs who said they would utilize cloud in IBM's 2009 CIO study. This revelation is the product of face-to-face interviews with CIOs from diverse organizations in 71 countries, 18 industries and organizations of every size.

The study, titled “The Essential CIO” reinforces the increasingly strategic role that CIOs are playing as leaders of innovation and growth.

Industry sectors that are more technically oriented, particularly in media and entertainment have rose to 73 percent whereas automotive rose to 70% and telecommunications to 69%. Moreover, companies concerned with data security like health care and financial services are accepting it too.

Concern of CIOs worldwide is to make available all the internet access services to their employees in a secure and cost effective manner. It may be similar to bringing the concept of App Store to business applications. For instance, IBM has it's own app store that has more than 400 business applications readily available for their users.

The study also stated that simplification of business processes has become more and more important to technology and management officers. They want to simplify the infrastructure as well as application portfolios and have centralized organisation in order to gain greater productivity. Whereas from the customer point of view, they want to enhance the user experience by  making the business enterprise simple  to work with.

7 out of 10 CIOs in the US, Japan and South Korea, and 68 percent in China, now identify cloud as a top priority. This is dramatically up from 2009, when CIO interest in cloud hovered at about a third in each of these countries.

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