ARMONK, N.Y., May 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
is the most popular provider of hosted private cloud according to a
survey from independent research firm Forrester Research. IBM
hosted private cloud solutions are preferred twice as much as
competitive offerings.
Forrester Research found that more than twice as many firms use
or plan to use IBM as their primary hosted private cloud platform,
and nearly twice as many firms use or plan to use IBM when
implementing multiple vendor cloud solutions, compared to the next
closest competitor in the survey.
The report, "Adoption Profile: Hosted Private Cloud, North
America and Europe, Q3 2014,"1 was based on a survey of
2,255 business and technology decision-makers.
Forrester defines hosted private cloud as a category of
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) where the solution lives
off-premises in a hosted environment and compute resources are
dedicated and isolated for customers.
The survey also reported that the top drivers in choosing to
adopt hosted private cloud include improved IT infrastructure and
flexibility, lower total cost of ownership for servers, on-demand
capacity and scalability, and improved disaster recovery and
business continuity.
One concern for choosing to adopt hosted private cloud according
to the report was vendor lock-in. The report found that "standards
like OASIS's TOSCA and open source projects like OpenStack provide
enterprises the future hope of less lock-in and greater adherence
to standards."
IBM is a leading supporter of open cloud computing and a
key contributor of code for OpenStack Integrated Projects and Cloud
Foundry.
IBM total cloud revenue – covering public, private and hybrid
engagements – was $7.7 billion over
the previous 12 months at the end of March
2015; it grew more than 60 percent in first quarter 2015.
IBM's cloud delivered as a service business, a subset of the total,
includes IaaS.
For more information about cloud offerings from IBM, visit
http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter at @IBMcloud and on
our blog at www.thoughtsoncloud.com. Join the conversation
#ibmcloud.
1 – Forrester Research, "Adoption Profile: Hosted
Private Cloud, North America and
Europe, Q3 2014," May 4, 2015 by Lauren E.
Nelson with Michael Caputo,
Glenn O'Donnell
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