23 Jun 2010

Cloud services 'have boomed'

There has been a boom in the uptake of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing in the UK following the economic downturn, it has been stated.

Eric Berridge, co-founder of New York-based solutions provider Bluewolf, has claimed the cost savings associated with SaaS and the cloud have meant that financial difficulties have prompted many firms to invest in these technologies, meaning that while investment in tech tends to suffer during a downturn, the opposite has happened in this instance.

He commented: "You don't have to buy all of that infrastructure."

Elsewhere, the Internet and American Life Project by the Pew Research Center recently forecast that cloud computing will have permeated all levels of business by 2020.

The poll revealed that 72 per cent of respondents felt that by the end of the decade, businesses will be much more reliant on smartphone and cloud applications to carry out their work.