A recent survey by Savvis showed that companies are looking to external IT resources to increase efficiency and shave costs. Savvis’ CTO, Bryan Doerr, best sums up the survey’s findings: “The survey confirms that organizations who outsource more IT infrastructure services are doing better than their counterparts by focusing IT resource on developing and managing business critical applications. Many IT leaders are being forced to do more with less budget in 2009. Cloud computing can help businesses achieve cost savings and efficiencies, and gain cost, control and end-user experience metrics, often in combination with traditional managed services.”
The study claims that 72% of US companies think cloud computing will play an important role in helping companies, especially in today’s economy – reducing infrastructure costs is cited as a big strategy for “doing more with less.” The main takeaway confirms what we’ve been seeing – selectively using cloud services will cut infrastructure costs and increase IT operations efficiency.
