Cloud Computing: An Assessment

August 2009

Read selected highlights and the opening pages here

Cloud Computing: An assessment is a comprehensive international study. By drawing upon extensive desk based research and interviews with IT executives and users, it looks at what IT buyers and users want from cloud services, what suppliers need to know about users and the emerging market, and the future quantitative and qualitative trajectories of cloud computing from 2011 through to 2020.

This report is essential reading for IT executives, CTOs, CIOs, managers, developers, private equity firms, investors, researchers and anyone else with an interest in the future and use of IT. It is targeted across all sectors and at organisations of all sizes. If you use or supply any form of IT product, service, software or platform, are thinking about using or supplying cloud services or wondering about the roles it can play in your organisation, this report is for you.

Included in this report:

• Current and future drivers to take-up and supply of which cloud services
• Public, private and hybrid clouds
• What IT execs give importance to when thinking about the cloud
• Importance IT execs give to attributes of cloud services
• Challenges IT execs believe face cloud computing
• When to move what to which cloud services, and how
• SaaS, PaaS, servers, storage, and business processes through the cloud
• Vertical markets
• Service level agreements
• Costs
• Security
• Reliability
• Vendor lock-in
• International law and regulation
• Standards and transparency
• Future trajectories
• How cloud computing and existing computing will co-exist in the short, medium and long terms
• Which cloud services to invest in, and which are going to grow the most and least
• Revenue growth across services and impacts on IT expenditure
• Recommendations for IT suppliers and buyers

Cloud computing: An assessment is a 34 page report is based on extensive quantitative and qualitative research including interviews with IT directors, strategists, managers, vendors and users of IT products and services.

Cost:

Single User Licence: £1,495 / US$2,500 / Euros1,725
Enterprise Wide Licence: £5,750 / US$9,500 / Euros6,500

To buy this report or if you have any questions, call Steve Smith on +44 (0)7779 610004, or email.

Companies and products mentioned in this report include:
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon Simple Storage System
Amazon Web Services
BT Counterpane
Citrix
Diomede
eBay
Facebook
Flickr
Free Software Foundation
General Electric
Google Apps
Google Docs
Gmail
GoToMyPC
HP
IBM
Intuit
Microsoft
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Accounting Professional
New York Times
Open Cloud Standards Incubator
Oracle
Sage
Salesforce.com
SAP BusinessByDesign
Sun
The Distributed Management Task Force
Twitter
VWWare
Windows Azure
Windows Live