The cloud is one of those amorphous technologies that gets trotted out as the answer to all of our woes, usually by people who don’t think all that deeply about IT and its challenges. We hate to puncture anyone’s bubble with a dose of reality, but at a macro level, adoption of all public cloud services except software as a service is going pretty darned slow.

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Depending on your expectations, doubling in five years the percentage of IT organizations that use cloud services, and reaching one-third of organizations, might be pretty good. But compare the adoption rate for cloud services to another game-changing technology, virtualization. For almost every IT organization, virtualization isn’t a matter of whether but how much. No one questions virtualization’s core value proposition; the only question is about the breadth of applicability.

In contrast, two-thirds of IT organizations either have decided the cloud isn’t for them or have yet to pull the trigger. The core value of the cloud is, in fact, in question.

Investing in cloud computing will allow companies in the UK to enjoy cost-effective and efficient telecommunications, particularly when calling abroad. Virtualisation is delivering massive benefits to businesses by enabling a wide range of operating systems to be run simultaneously on a single physical platform.

Contact Reliable Networks now, to find out more about innovative technologies and talk to our London IT Support team.