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The findings of a survey by document management software company, Version One, has revealed that 41% of senior IT professionals admit that they “don’t know” what cloud computing is. Version One carried out the research with 60 senior IT professionals (IT directors and managers) across a range of UK public and private sector organisations. This research follows-on from a similar survey carried-out by Version One which highlights that two-thirds of UK senior finance professionals (finance directors and managers) are confused about cloud computing.

Of the remaining 59% of IT professionals who profess to know what cloud computing is, 17% of these understand cloud computing to be internet-based computing while 11% believe it is a combination of internet-based computing, software as a service (SAAS), software on demand, an outsourced or managed service and a hosted software service. The remaining respondents understand cloud computing to be a mixture of the above.

I wonder if cloud is one of those things that means different things to different people. I wonder if this is one of these technologies or processes that could transform how we provision and deliver the IT within the enterprise. We’ll have to see it, I like to think it’s the start of moving to the next generation infrastructure, the next generation business, in which the IT runs in the most efficient location, a follow the sun support model where we can fail over the data center, not the IT.

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