Businesses are in the cloud for the long term, with 65 percent of organizations choosing cloud subscriptions lasting one year or more. Click on image to discover more cloud findings from the CSC Cloud Usage Index, developed from a global survey of more than 3,500 IT decision makers who use cloud. http://assets1.csc.com/newsroom/downloads/CSC_Cloud_Usage_Index.pdf

1. AHEAD IN THE CLOUD
The CSC Cloud Usage Index
Information access to multiple Few companies downsize IT after
computing devices is the top driver cloud adoption
33% of companies
adopted cloud primarily
to access information After cloud adoption:
from any device
rather than 14% 20%
cut costs
Downsized Hired
Only 14% of companies downsized
Top reasons for adopting 33% 17% IT after adopting cloud—20% hired
cloud computing Mobility Cost more cloud experts
The majority of businesses save money with cloud, but savings are small
23% of U.S. businesses, and Percentage
45% of U.S. small businesses of businesses
Percentage saving
(less than 50 employees)
of all businesses reported no savings while
saving 35% of U.S. businesses
saved less than $20,000 92% 70%
$ $ $ $ Dollars saved Brazil Australia
$ $ $ $ 82% of all
$ $ $ $ companies Brazilian businesses reap
$ $ $ saved money the most cost benefit with
on their last 92% saving money, while
$0 <$20K
82% cloud adoption only 70% of Australian
project businesses saved money
23% 35%
Percent of U.S. businesses
Businesses are into the Cloud computing gives
cloud for the long term businesses a green boost
64% of companies
consumption
65% of companies say that adopting
choose cloud subscriptions cloud has helped
lasting one year or more
Energy
them reduce waste
Waste
and lower energy
65% J•F•M•A•M•J•J•A•S•O•N•D
consumption
Nearly all businesses boost improvements in IT performance after cloud adoption
Percent of companies seeing Companies reporting
Lower
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costs en
improvement em
ov
52% 47% pr
93% Im
Increased 80% J • F • M • A • M • J
efficiency
93% of all companies saw 52% reported increased 80% experienced
at least one area of data center efficiency and improvements
improvement in their IT utilization, while 47% of within six months
department since companies said they of moving to the
adopting cloud witnessed lower operating cloud
costs after cloud adoption
Small businesses face less workforce Employee preparation in advance of
resistance to cloud adoption cloud implementation varies widely
% of companies that prepared employees
United States 80%
Australia 81%
Brazil 97%
74% US and Australian businesses lag in
preparing employees for cloud adoption
with 80% and 81% of companies
74% of small businesses say that providing any information or training,
no one in their company resisted while 97% of Brazilian companies
the move to the cloud prepared their employees
Data security concerns do not change significantly after adopting cloud computing
Only 25% of 47% of businesses 47% of Brazilian
companies in Singapore companies said
expressed more expressed more they are less
concern about concern about concerned after
data security data security switching to
25 after adopting
47 following cloud
47
the cloud
cloud services adoption
More More Less
Concerned Concerned concerned
Half of U.S. government IT workers say they've moved work to the cloud
48% of U.S. government agencies % of U.S. agencies that moved a workflow to the cloud
moved at least one workflow to the
cloud following the new requirement
that U.S. federal agencies adopt a
48%
moved
"cloud-first" policy
These key findings are from a global Design: Stanford Kay Studio
survey of 3,645 IT decision makers stanfordkaystudio.com
in eight countries conducted
independently by TNS and
funded by CSC.