04 Feb 2010

Firms 'implementing cloud technology'

More businesses have embraced cloud computing in the last 12 months, while many more look set to over the course of 2010, it has been claimed.

Rob Lovell, chief executive officer at ThinkGrid, said many firms are now understanding the benefits of cloud computing, which include improved IT infrastructure flexibility, better data accessibility and improved recoverability.

He commented: "The reason why people are starting to understand a little bit more about it and there is a bit more visibility about what cloud computing is, is that there are so many people pushing that way."

According to holistic email management company Mimecast, 62 per cent of IT decision makers in the US and Canada are presently weighing up whether to invest in cloud computing.

It noted that the top three industries that are considering the use of the technology are IT (53 per cent), financial services (40 per cent) and legal (37 per cent).