• TREND MICRO
  • ABOUT
Search:
  • Latest Posts
  • Categories
    • Android
    • AWS
    • Azure
    • Cloud
    • Compliance
    • Critical Infrastructure
    • Cybercrime
    • Encryption
    • Financial Services
    • Government
    • Hacks
    • Healthcare
    • Internet of Everything
    • Malware
    • Microsoft
    • Mobile Security
    • Network
    • Privacy
    • Ransomware
    • Security
    • Social Media
    • Small Business
    • Targeted Attacks
    • Trend Spotlight
    • Virtualization
    • Vulnerabilities
    • Web Security
    • Zero Day Initiative
    • Industry News
  • Our Experts
    • Ed Cabrera
    • Rik Ferguson
    • Greg Young
    • Mark Nunnikhoven
    • Jon Clay
    • William “Bill” Malik
  • Research
Home   »   Cloud   »   Why did you go to the cloud in the first place?

Why did you go to the cloud in the first place?

  • Posted on:January 23, 2014
  • Posted in:Cloud, Security
  • Posted by:
    Dave Asprey
0

The first step of the journey to the cloud for enterprises seems to be complete. The proof is that few enterprises today are running their infrastructure in an entirely cloud-free manner. Looking back over the past few years, the clear motivation for the first step to the cloud was usually cost-cutting and driving efficiency.

Today, the cloud has grownup. A recent survey from Oxford Economics and IBM asked 802 decision-makers outside of the IT organizations across 24 industries about their motivation for using the cloud. The results were surprising:

ā€œOne out of five organizations has discovered a secret source of competitive differentiation. It allows them to serve customers in new ways and reimagine their business models. It can help surface valuable insights from their data and transform how they make decisions… it helps… grow revenue and gross profit faster than other organizations.ā€

In other words, enterprises came to save money but figured out there was a bigger reason to be in the cloud. And other executives noticed.

Perhaps most impressive of all in this survey is that the cloud’s strategic importance to non-IT decision-makers like CEOs is about to more than double from 34% to 72%. In fact, if you’re like the average IT executive who ranks the strategic importance of the cloud at about 58%, your CEO may think the cloud is more strategic than you do.

This is not new. If you were in an IT organization in the late 1990s, you probably remember how annoying it was when your chief marketing officer signed an outsourced contract for web hosting and e-commerce without talking to you. Today, there is little risk of that happening again, but you may find it surprising this year if your senior executive team comes to you asking for more cloud, not less.

This is good news for your IT career. It seems like in some years, the IT function is a cost center, and in others it is a strategic advantage. If this survey is to be believed, the coming couple years will be great for IT staffers and executives who have their heads in the clouds.

Related posts:

  1. More than half your IT spend is going to be cloud by 2016
  2. In UK, cloud costs becoming more important than security, report finds
  3. Despite trepidation, cloud computing carries on within enterprises
  4. Study: Cloud confidence flourishes as IT evolves

Security Intelligence Blog

  • Our New Blog
  • How Unsecure gRPC Implementations Can Compromise APIs, Applications
  • XCSSET Mac Malware: Infects Xcode Projects, Performs UXSS Attack on Safari, Other Browsers, Leverages Zero-day Exploits

Featured Authors

Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)
Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)
  • Ransomware is Still a Blight on Business
Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)
Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)
  • Not Just Good Security Products, But a Good Partner
Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)
Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)
  • This Week in Security News: Ransomware Gang is Raking in Tens of Millions of Dollars and Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update Fixes 17 Critical Bugs
Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)
Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)
  • Twitter Hacked in Bitcoin Scam
Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)
Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)
  • The Sky Has Already Fallen (you just haven’t seen the alert yet)
William
William "Bill" Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)
  • Black Hat Trip Report – Trend Micro

Follow Us

Trend Micro In The News

  • Cloud-based Email Threats Capitalized on Chaos of COVID-19
  • Detected Cyber Threats Rose 20% to Exceed 62.6 Billion in 2020
  • Trend Micro Recognized on CRN Security 100 List
  • Trend Micro Reports Solid Results for Q4 and Fiscal Year 2020
  • Connected Cars Technology Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks
  • Home and Home Office
  • |
  • For Business
  • |
  • Security Intelligence
  • |
  • About Trend Micro
  • Asia Pacific Region (APAC): Australia / New Zealand, 中国, ę—„ęœ¬, ėŒ€ķ•œėÆ¼źµ­, å°ē£
  • Latin America Region (LAR): Brasil, MĆ©xico
  • North America Region (NABU): United States, Canada
  • Europe, Middle East, & Africa Region (EMEA): France, Deutschland / Ɩsterreich / Schweiz, Italia, Š Š¾ŃŃŠøŃ, EspaƱa, United Kingdom / Ireland
  • Privacy Statement
  • Legal Policies
  • Copyright © 2017 Trend Micro Incorporated. All rights reserved.