European Companies Adopting Public Cloud Faster Than U.S. Peers

摘要

An Aberdeen Group survey shows that companies based in Europe have adopted the public cloud earlier, and are using more cloud services than companies based in North America. Europe has endured a double-dip recession and resident companies report more operational and financial pressures to adopt the public cloud than companies in America. As a result, European companies, on average have been able to reduce their IT spending and headcount numbers to a greater degree man their cousins in Norm America. According to Aberdeen, mere are now five basic ways to deploy an application, either on-premise ox in the cloud. Leading enterprises are more likely to deploy SharePoint in the Cloud using a SaaS deployment model or in-house on a virtualized server.