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What to include in an agreement with a cloud provider

12.11.2010
is a lot like the weather: Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about it. Just 9.3% of companies say they'll be using platform or infrastructure as a service () offerings by the end of the year. And a paltry 4.5% have definite plans to use cloud services in 2011 or 2012.

That's for the moment, anyway. But if you look a little deeper into organizations' plans, the trend towards cloud is clearly gathering momentum. A whopping 27.3 % of companies say they're currently evaluating infrastructure cloud services, and I strongly suspect the rate of uptake will increase dramatically in 2011.

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