Open source is now fully embraced by both the public and private sectors, and is being implemented across a wide variety of markets and applications such as social publishing and big data, according to a survey. Uuser confidence in open source continues to grow dramatically, represented by the fact that users are much less concerned with historical impediments to adoption such as licensing or conforming to an organization's internal policies. The future is bright for open source. Emerging technology segments such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), private cloud, public cloud, and mobile are driving growth in open source.
Key findings:
-- Respondents have identified SaaS, cloud and mobile as the main areas that will have a dramatic impact on open source and that are driving growth.
-- In 2010 there were 3,800 new open source based projects in mobile, with 94 percent targeting Android and Apple iOS, more than double the number in 2009.
-- There are now more than 470 open source projects targeting cloud computing.
-- For the first time, supporting the fact that open source has truly gone mainstream, end users accounted for 60 percent of the survey respondents and the quality of responses continues to increase, spreading across all levels of IT management from developers to a large number of C-level executives.
-- The open source customers are now more focused on mainstream technology issues, including improved operational excellence around areas such as support, product management, feature functionality and return on investment. This is in contrast to earlier years where the survey had pointed to things such as the legal implications of licensing and conforming to internal policies.
-- 56 percent of respondents believe that more than half of software purchases made in the next five years will be open source.
-- 95 percent of respondents noted that a turbulent economy continues to be "good" for OSS, though for the first year ever, lower cost has been overtaken by freedom from vendor lock-in as what makes OSS more attractive.
-- When asked about revenue generating strategies likely to create value for vendors, 56 percent said that an annual, repeatable support and service agreement was the most likely.
Comment from Matt Aslett, senior analyst, enterprise software, The 451 Group: The 451 Group's research has previously shown that the benefits of open source software are many and varied and the survey highlights the fact that multiple factors are driving the increased adoption of open source software, including freedom from vendor lock-in, greater flexibility and lower cost.
About the survey: North Bridge Venture Partners conducted the annual Future of Open Source Survey in partnership with The 451 Group. More than 450 respondents took part, including representatives from both the vendor and non-vendor communities.
Contact: http://www.northbridge.com
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Improved Service Availability and Scalability Drive Cloud Adoption
Migration to cloud computing services has increased by 20 percent compared to results from 2010, according to a study. After implementing cloud services, respondents reported the greatest gains in increased application availability and scalability.
Key findings:
-- Cloud Computing on the Rise: Sixty-one percent of respondents have cloud computing services running on their network in 2011. Of these respondents, half have implemented some form of software-as-a-service (SaaS) like Salesforce.com or Google Apps. This was an increase of 10 percent when compared to SaaS adoption in 2010. Fifty percent have deployed private clouds. The 21 percent rise in adoption of private clouds was the largest gain made by a cloud service over last year. A smaller number (21 percent) rely on some form of platform as a service (PaaS) such as Microsoft Azure and Salesforce Force.
-- Cloud-Based Applications Climbing: Respondents indicated that percentage of applications running in the cloud will climb to 38 percent from 21 percent by mid-2012.
-- Improved Availability and User Experience: After deploying cloud services, 61 percent report improved application availability, which compared to only 4 percent reporting availability decreasing. Similarly, 52 percent indicated end-user experience improved compared to only 4 percent that said user experience worsened.
-- Increased Scalability: Over half of respondents reported their ability to scale applications to meet the demands of their organization had improved with cloud computing.
-- Troubleshooting Worsened: Sixty percent of respondents indicated that their ability to troubleshoot problems worsened or remained the same after migrating to the cloud.
-- Cloudy Monitoring: Fifty-two percent of respondents stated that their ability to monitor cloud performance worsened or remained the same after deploying cloud services.
Comment from said Brad Reinboldt, senior product manager of Network Instruments: Although cloud adopters have reported improvements in application availability and cost savings. These improvements aren't sustainable in the long run without appropriate monitoring tools. When trouble does hit, it falls in the lap of the organization's network team to prove that the problem is occurring on the cloud provider's side. Without proof, organizations will waste time finger pointing, jeopardizing any cost savings or efficiency improvements.
About the survey: Network Instruments conducted the onsite survey of 94 network engineers, IT managers and executives attending Interop.
Contact: http://www.networkinstruments.com
Key findings:
-- Cloud Computing on the Rise: Sixty-one percent of respondents have cloud computing services running on their network in 2011. Of these respondents, half have implemented some form of software-as-a-service (SaaS) like Salesforce.com or Google Apps. This was an increase of 10 percent when compared to SaaS adoption in 2010. Fifty percent have deployed private clouds. The 21 percent rise in adoption of private clouds was the largest gain made by a cloud service over last year. A smaller number (21 percent) rely on some form of platform as a service (PaaS) such as Microsoft Azure and Salesforce Force.
-- Cloud-Based Applications Climbing: Respondents indicated that percentage of applications running in the cloud will climb to 38 percent from 21 percent by mid-2012.
-- Improved Availability and User Experience: After deploying cloud services, 61 percent report improved application availability, which compared to only 4 percent reporting availability decreasing. Similarly, 52 percent indicated end-user experience improved compared to only 4 percent that said user experience worsened.
-- Increased Scalability: Over half of respondents reported their ability to scale applications to meet the demands of their organization had improved with cloud computing.
-- Troubleshooting Worsened: Sixty percent of respondents indicated that their ability to troubleshoot problems worsened or remained the same after migrating to the cloud.
-- Cloudy Monitoring: Fifty-two percent of respondents stated that their ability to monitor cloud performance worsened or remained the same after deploying cloud services.
Comment from said Brad Reinboldt, senior product manager of Network Instruments: Although cloud adopters have reported improvements in application availability and cost savings. These improvements aren't sustainable in the long run without appropriate monitoring tools. When trouble does hit, it falls in the lap of the organization's network team to prove that the problem is occurring on the cloud provider's side. Without proof, organizations will waste time finger pointing, jeopardizing any cost savings or efficiency improvements.
About the survey: Network Instruments conducted the onsite survey of 94 network engineers, IT managers and executives attending Interop.
Contact: http://www.networkinstruments.com
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Sixty Percent Of Companies Using Applications In The Cloud
SaaS adoption is up 13 points over last year, to 60 percent, despite lingering concerns about features and functionality, according to a survey. More than one-quarter of survey respondents say the applications they have delivered as services are mission critical, down from 34 percent. Meanwhile, start-ups and niche SaaS providers are going up against established vendors like Microsoft, Google and Salesforce.com, giving smaller businesses opportunities to take advantage of the burgeoning technology.
Other findings:
-- SaaS use among companies surveyed jumped to 60 percent from 47 percent last year.
-- Speed to implement, capex savings and opex savings are the biggest drivers behind the move to a SaaS model.
-- Top reasons 40 percent of companies don't use SaaS: lack of business requirement, concerns over security and concerns over data ownership.
-- SaaS satisfaction levels dipped 11 points, to 74 percent; still, only 14 percent say their app services don't meet expectations.
-- Twenty-six percent of respondents rate their SaaS-delivered apps "mission-critical," down from 34 percent a year ago; they rate 61 percent "important," vs. 51 percent last year.
-- CRM (44 percent), Web presence (38 percent) and email (35 percent) are the most common SaaS apps, followed closely by HR/recruiting (33 percent) and sales (32 percent).
-- Microsoft (34 percent, up 8 points), Salesforce.com (30 percent, down 11 points) and Google (26 percent, down 2 points) still garner the bulk of the market, but ADP (18 percent, up 15 points), IBM (16 percent, up 14 points) and EMC (15 percent, up 7 points) have gained ground, and smaller companies abound. Oracle dropped 11 points, to 15 percent.
-- The split between companies using customized SaaS apps and those using standard SaaS apps: 50/50.
Comment from Lorna Garey, content director of InformationWeek Analytics: It's getting harder for SaaS vendors to maintain quality levels, because they have to provide both standard and custom services for different companies. Most IT pros tell us they're happy to outsource apps so they have time to focus on content development and other projects, but they still work closely with the vendors to manage service contracts and processes--they don't just relinquish control for reliability and security, for instance.
About the survey: InformationWeek Analytics's report, SaaS 2011, explores the state of software as a service, a technology being adopted at unprecedented rates. The 275 respondents to this exclusive survey are business technology decision-makers involved in their companies' enterprise applications strategies. Report author, Michael Biddick, is president and CTO of Fusion PPT.
Contact: http://www.informationweek.com/
Other findings:
-- SaaS use among companies surveyed jumped to 60 percent from 47 percent last year.
-- Speed to implement, capex savings and opex savings are the biggest drivers behind the move to a SaaS model.
-- Top reasons 40 percent of companies don't use SaaS: lack of business requirement, concerns over security and concerns over data ownership.
-- SaaS satisfaction levels dipped 11 points, to 74 percent; still, only 14 percent say their app services don't meet expectations.
-- Twenty-six percent of respondents rate their SaaS-delivered apps "mission-critical," down from 34 percent a year ago; they rate 61 percent "important," vs. 51 percent last year.
-- CRM (44 percent), Web presence (38 percent) and email (35 percent) are the most common SaaS apps, followed closely by HR/recruiting (33 percent) and sales (32 percent).
-- Microsoft (34 percent, up 8 points), Salesforce.com (30 percent, down 11 points) and Google (26 percent, down 2 points) still garner the bulk of the market, but ADP (18 percent, up 15 points), IBM (16 percent, up 14 points) and EMC (15 percent, up 7 points) have gained ground, and smaller companies abound. Oracle dropped 11 points, to 15 percent.
-- The split between companies using customized SaaS apps and those using standard SaaS apps: 50/50.
Comment from Lorna Garey, content director of InformationWeek Analytics: It's getting harder for SaaS vendors to maintain quality levels, because they have to provide both standard and custom services for different companies. Most IT pros tell us they're happy to outsource apps so they have time to focus on content development and other projects, but they still work closely with the vendors to manage service contracts and processes--they don't just relinquish control for reliability and security, for instance.
About the survey: InformationWeek Analytics's report, SaaS 2011, explores the state of software as a service, a technology being adopted at unprecedented rates. The 275 respondents to this exclusive survey are business technology decision-makers involved in their companies' enterprise applications strategies. Report author, Michael Biddick, is president and CTO of Fusion PPT.
Contact: http://www.informationweek.com/
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Service Providers Top The List As Cloud-Computing Providers
Service providers have an opportunity to differentiate themselves and add new revenue-generating services by providing public cloud-computing services, a survey has found.
Nearly 12 percent of enterprise workloads will run in the public cloud by the end of 2013. Furthermore, the study found that desktop applications, email, collaboration, and enterprise resources planning are most likely to shift to the cloud. This, in turn, will yield a market for public, cloud-computing services of approximately US$44 billion.
Key facts/highlights
-- Enterprises across many sectors -- including manufacturing, financial services, retail, healthcare, and professional services systems integrators, IT service outsourcers, technical consulting, and public sector organizations -- are seriously considering cloud computing.
-- Cloud-migration decisions are being made at the application level. Most decision makers envision a staged migration to cloud-computing services, beginning with noncritical applications. Enterprise executives believe that no applications should be automatically excluded from migration to cloud.
-- For enterprises, the decision about moving to a private or public cloud is not binary. It hinges on executives' perceptions around security and control, data-center overcapacity and scale, and access to skilled IT personnel. Enterprises will potentially use private and public cloud-computing to manage their IT resources.
-- The study identified a set of target applications for cloud that spans various verticals. Targets for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) include application development and testing, disaster recovery, simulations, data warehousing, and analysis. Targets for software-as-a-service (SaaS) are customer-relationship management (CRM), email, unified communications, web applications and desktop environments.
-- An organizational convergence is taking place across the IT and networking departments within enterprises. A total of 80 percent of the enterprises surveyed have converged, or are in the process of converging, these departments into one organizational structure.
About the study: The study, conducted by Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), investigates the "public cloud" and the desire of enterprises to use external, on-demand infrastructure and applications. Cisco IBSG conducted in-depth, one-on-one interviews with more than 80 enterprise information technology (IT) decision makers from 43 enterprises and public-sector organizations in the United States, the European Union, and India. Additionally, Cisco IBSG interviewed 20 subject matter experts.
Contact: The complete white paper ("Network Service Providers as Cloud Providers: Survey Shows Cloud Provision Is a Bright Option") can be downloaded here.
Contact: http://www.cisco.com
Nearly 12 percent of enterprise workloads will run in the public cloud by the end of 2013. Furthermore, the study found that desktop applications, email, collaboration, and enterprise resources planning are most likely to shift to the cloud. This, in turn, will yield a market for public, cloud-computing services of approximately US$44 billion.
Key facts/highlights
-- Enterprises across many sectors -- including manufacturing, financial services, retail, healthcare, and professional services systems integrators, IT service outsourcers, technical consulting, and public sector organizations -- are seriously considering cloud computing.
-- Cloud-migration decisions are being made at the application level. Most decision makers envision a staged migration to cloud-computing services, beginning with noncritical applications. Enterprise executives believe that no applications should be automatically excluded from migration to cloud.
-- For enterprises, the decision about moving to a private or public cloud is not binary. It hinges on executives' perceptions around security and control, data-center overcapacity and scale, and access to skilled IT personnel. Enterprises will potentially use private and public cloud-computing to manage their IT resources.
-- The study identified a set of target applications for cloud that spans various verticals. Targets for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) include application development and testing, disaster recovery, simulations, data warehousing, and analysis. Targets for software-as-a-service (SaaS) are customer-relationship management (CRM), email, unified communications, web applications and desktop environments.
-- An organizational convergence is taking place across the IT and networking departments within enterprises. A total of 80 percent of the enterprises surveyed have converged, or are in the process of converging, these departments into one organizational structure.
About the study: The study, conducted by Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), investigates the "public cloud" and the desire of enterprises to use external, on-demand infrastructure and applications. Cisco IBSG conducted in-depth, one-on-one interviews with more than 80 enterprise information technology (IT) decision makers from 43 enterprises and public-sector organizations in the United States, the European Union, and India. Additionally, Cisco IBSG interviewed 20 subject matter experts.
Contact: The complete white paper ("Network Service Providers as Cloud Providers: Survey Shows Cloud Provision Is a Bright Option") can be downloaded here.
Contact: http://www.cisco.com
Friday, November 12, 2010
Investment In Cloud Computing Is Rising; Resistance To SaaS ERP Declining
Thirty-nine percent of respondents to a survey are willing to consider Software as a Service (SaaS) as a deployment option for their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations. This is a 61 percent increase in the willingness to consider SaaS from 2009 to 2010. Not only do we see a significant increase in willingness to consider SaaS or on-demand as a deployment method, but also notable is the decreased willingness to consider the traditional licensed on-premise option, which dropped by almost 18 percent.
Seventy-nine percent of survey respondents are considering SaaS because of the lower total cost of ownership. They are also considering it because it reduces the cost of upgrades and because they have limited IT resources and no interest in building IT staff. Because of this, 2010 could very well be the year in which SaaS ERP really gains strength in the marketplace.
Comment from Cindy Jutras, vice president research fellow and group director, Aberdeen: Since 2007 Aberdeen has been keeping watch on deployment models of ERP. In July 2007, we characterized ERP as the Last Bastion of Resistance to Software as a Service (SaaS). In June 2008 we revisited the topic and found SaaS ERP had not kept pace with the hype-cycle of other SaaS enterprise applications. Eighteen months later (at the end of 2009), in spite of the surge in interest in cloud computing and virtualization and the availability of SaaS ERP options from an increasing number of solution providers, SaaS ERP had yet to "take off." Finally in mid-2010 we are seeing an overall 61 percent jump in willingness to consider SaaS ERP. Will 2010 finally be the year when those walls of resistance come tumbling down? Or will they just fade away and leave us at the dawn of 2011 wondering what the fuss was all about?
About the report: SaaS ERP: Trends & Observations 2010 from Aberdeen Group is available at the Web site.
Contact: http://www.aberdeen.com
Seventy-nine percent of survey respondents are considering SaaS because of the lower total cost of ownership. They are also considering it because it reduces the cost of upgrades and because they have limited IT resources and no interest in building IT staff. Because of this, 2010 could very well be the year in which SaaS ERP really gains strength in the marketplace.
Comment from Cindy Jutras, vice president research fellow and group director, Aberdeen: Since 2007 Aberdeen has been keeping watch on deployment models of ERP. In July 2007, we characterized ERP as the Last Bastion of Resistance to Software as a Service (SaaS). In June 2008 we revisited the topic and found SaaS ERP had not kept pace with the hype-cycle of other SaaS enterprise applications. Eighteen months later (at the end of 2009), in spite of the surge in interest in cloud computing and virtualization and the availability of SaaS ERP options from an increasing number of solution providers, SaaS ERP had yet to "take off." Finally in mid-2010 we are seeing an overall 61 percent jump in willingness to consider SaaS ERP. Will 2010 finally be the year when those walls of resistance come tumbling down? Or will they just fade away and leave us at the dawn of 2011 wondering what the fuss was all about?
About the report: SaaS ERP: Trends & Observations 2010 from Aberdeen Group is available at the Web site.
Contact: http://www.aberdeen.com
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Cloud Services Move From On-Premise To On-Demand
Roughly 750,000 (12 percent) small businesses and 20,000 (24 percent) medium businesses are already using software as a service (SaaS). However, of today's SaaS users, 78 percent of SBs and 31 percent of MBs are leveraging a SaaS plus on-premise mix (or hybrid model), while approximately only a third of SaaS users are using an actual pure-SaaS product.
With an anticipated growth of up to $95 billion in global SMB cloud-related spending by 2014, it isn't a surprise to see over half of U.S. SMBs looking into SaaS as a potential solution.
Approximately one in five U.S. SMBs plan to use SaaS. However, AMI believes that SMBs are easing into the concept of local plus cloud-based computing rather than leapfrogging into a pure-play platform.
Almost two years since the downturn began, 77 percent of U.S. small businesses (1-99 employees) and 84 percent of U.S. medium businesses (100+ employees) very concerned with current market conditions. This marks a 31 percent and 81 percent year-over-year increase, respectively.
The data comes from AMI's latest worldwide SMB Cloud Services Practice.
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