{"id":848,"date":"2016-02-12T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=848"},"modified":"2018-07-05T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T21:06:13","slug":"enterprises-increase-cloud-spend-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/enterprises-increase-cloud-spend-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Enterprises Plan To Increase Or Maintain Annual Spend On Cloud Computing In 2016, Survey Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-663\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/08\/cloudgrowth-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"cloudgrowth\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/08\/cloudgrowth-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2015\/08\/cloudgrowth.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Most enterprises in the US plan to increase their spending on cloud computing by as much as 50% in 2016, according to a new study conducted by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based B2B research firm. Over the same time period, 30% \u00a0of enterprises plan to maintain their current spending, while just 6% will reduce their cloud budget. This spending pattern indicates a massive growth opportunity for cloud service providers (CSPs), even as the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market becomes increasingly dominated by so-called hyperscale vendors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Clutch surveyed 300 IT professionals who work at medium and large enterprises that use a full-service cloud computing platform and found that 47% identified increased efficiency as the main benefit of cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The highest priority cited for enterprise cloud usage is file storage, at 70%, followed by backup and disaster recovery (62%), application deployment (51%), and application development and testing (46%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The survey suggests that cloud service providers can appeal to enterprises by leveraging features that correspond to these prioritized tasks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Clutch\u2019s enterprise cloud computing survey included 300 enterprises with more than 100 employees. The study also measured the cloud computing services used and the cloud infrastructure implementation processes practiced.<\/p>\n<br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most enterprises in the US plan to increase their spending on cloud computing by as much as 50% in 2016, according to a new study conducted by Clutch, a Washington, DC-based B2B research firm. Over the same time period, 30% \u00a0of enterprises plan to maintain their current spending, while just 6% will reduce their cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[247,153,253],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Most Enterprises Plan To Increase Or Maintain Annual Spend On Cloud Computing In 2016, Survey Says - Best Enterprise Cloud Strategy Tools, Vendors, Managed Service Providers, MSP and Solutions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New survey from Clutch suggests 90% of enterprises will increase or maintain annual spending on cloud computing.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/enterprises-increase-cloud-spend-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Edwards\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/enterprises-increase-cloud-spend-2016\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/enterprises-increase-cloud-spend-2016\/\",\"name\":\"Most Enterprises Plan To Increase Or Maintain Annual Spend On Cloud Computing In 2016, Survey Says - 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