Five Out of Six Organizations Use or Plan to Use Cloud Storage, Says New Survey

Storage capacity requirements are quickly outstripping the ability of IT to support them, with a full 60 percent of respondents agreeing, “It seems like we are always running out of storage.”

More than a third (37 percent) of respondents indicate that they have been using cloud computing for three or more years—an increase of more than a third over last year. Adoption rates across all cloud initiatives (including software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and cloud storage) have increased year over year.

Despite having the second lowest adoption rate today (46 percent), cloud storage is the cloud initiative that faces the highest level of eventual adoption, with 84 percent using or planning to use cloud storage.

Scalability/storage expansion was the benefit most cited by organizations currently using cloud storage. In contrast, it was also the benefit least cited by those with no plans to implement storage.