So says The Cloud Industry Forum, which has been monitoring cloud adoption among UK businesses year-on-year since 2011. Seven years later, cloud usage has infiltrated almost every organisation in one form or another, bringing with it improved flexibility, agility, mobility and cost effectiveness.
According to its findings, The Cloud Industry Forum revealed that almost nine in ten (89%) businesses are fully immersed in one cloud-based service or another, with adoption levels continuing to rise. For the first time in the cloud’s history, cloud infrastructure receives almost a fifth of businesses total IT budgets (19%) and surpasses on-premise and legacy spenditure (18%). This margin will only widen, as businesses plan to reduce their current on-premise spending by a third (down to just 12%) in the next three years.
