Many start-ups and smaller businesses already depend on the cloud to manage many of their applications. IDC's latest report on the subject says that in the Asia-Pacific Rim, 11 percent of companies polled are already in the cloud, with another 41 percent evaluating or piloting cloud solutions. Furthermore, other IDC studies indicate that 26 percent of businesses use the cloud for IT management, 15 percent to bolster server and storage capacity, a quarter for collaboration and business applications, and 17 percent for application development and deployment. Senior IDC analyst Frank Gens says that ease and speed of deployment are the chief reasons behind the growth of the cloud.
Cost and efficiency are also advancing data warehousing and information management in the cloud. Omer Trajman, director of field engineering, Vertica, and a 10-year veteran of Cloud-based technologies, writes, "Cloud computing based on pay-as-you-go hardware infrastructure like Amazon or Google offers business intelligence users new data warehouse options that bring unlimited scalability without traditional data center overhead and budget constraints."
Cost and efficiency are also advancing data warehousing and information management in the cloud. Omer Trajman, director of field engineering, Vertica, and a 10-year veteran of Cloud-based technologies, writes, "Cloud computing based on pay-as-you-go hardware infrastructure like Amazon or Google offers business intelligence users new data warehouse options that bring unlimited scalability without traditional data center overhead and budget constraints."
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