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Private clouds delivering on efficiency and cost savings, poll says

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

cloud A new InformationWeek report suggests that companies putting off development of a private cloud may be losing out on significant financial advantages.

“It’s interesting to compare the reality of early adopters with the expectations of those just getting going,” says Lorna Garey, content director of InformationWeek Reports.

“Private clouds seem to deliver on efficiency and cost savings, but lessons learned include budgeting for training and making sure software can take full advantage of a cloudified infrastructure.”

The report, “Private Cloud Vision vs. Reality,” split the response pool among respondents with private clouds in place, those just starting these initiatives and those holding off for now, to compare expectations and perceived drawbacks with actual early adopter experience.

Of respondents who aren’t aiming for a private cloud, 32% say their applications are a major hurdle, and 42% say they just don’t have the budget. Our data suggests they may be forgoing significant financial advantages.

Findings:

99% of our survey respondents with private clouds describe their initiatives as successful.
45% of non-adopters say they believe private clouds could deliver a compelling technical advantage.
38% of respondents starting private cloud projects expect to spend 21% or more of their overall IT budgets on the initiative.
16% of respondents starting private cloud projects will buy a preconfigured bundle, like the Cisco/EMC/VMware vBlocks system. Most, 38%, will cobble together individual projects despite 31% citing a lack of standards as a top expected roadblock.

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Poll shows Facebook & Apple product fatigue (infographic)

Monday, July 23rd, 2012

Avid techies may eagerly await each new Apple Inc. product – such as the Apple Mini-iPad – but many of us are tiring of the constant stream of the latest greatest new thing from Apple. A similar fatigue may also be building over Facebook use.

So says SodaHead.com, an opinion-based online community, which polled its users on their thoughts about rumored upcoming Apple products and their Facebook use.

Among the findings:

52 percent of respondents feel that they will spend less time on Facebook in the next year, while only 12 percent plan on spending more time. 36 percent think they will spend the same amount of time on Facebook
37 percent of respondents do not check Facebook at all, while 33 percent check a few times per day, 20 percent check once or twice a day and 10 percent are checking constantly
Moving forward, 73 percent of respondents believe another social network will eventually eclipse Facebook, while only 27 percent think that no other social network will ever top Facebook
In terms of the number of social networks used by respondents, 61 percent use a few, 23 percent use just one, nine percent use “a ton,” while only seven percent don’t use any social network
For Apple’s rumored upcoming product launches, only 28 percent are interested in the “iPad Mini,” while 72 percent are already “over it.” Even fewer are excited about the iPhone5, with 26 percent stating they are interested, while 74 percent are over it.

It is periodically popular to claim one is tiring of Facebook (and other social media networks, for that matter). We’ve heard people say they were quitting Facebook forever only to see them back at it as strongly as ever in the past, so people may say one thing and do another.

But new product fatigue may be more real. The deluge of new digital devices, including Amazon’s Kindles, Google’s Nexus 7, and the Microsoft Surface, as well as rumored new phones and tablets from Apple, can be tiring indeed.

Here’s an infographic based on the SodaHead.com findings: