The proportion of businesses in Asia Pacific reaping the benefits cloud infrastructure services has increased significantly in the last quarter, according to a global survey from Oracle.
Nearly three quarters of respondents (74%) believe Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) makes it easier for businesses to innovate, a 9% increase over last quarter. The research also found that 65% of businesses believe IaaS delivers exceptional operational performance in terms of speed and availability, an 18% quarter-over-quarter increase.
Over half of respondents (61%) found their organization experienced improved productivity from their migration to cloud, while just over half (53%) found their IT teams have greater scope to work on other value-adding projects.
The study also revealed that two thirds of businesses (67%) believe that companies not investing in IaaS will struggle to keep up with those that are using it. The index also highlighted that moving to IaaS has significantly cut time to deployment of new applications and services and slashed maintenance costs for over two thirds of respondents (70%).
"The responses clearly show that companies are getting increasing levels of benefit from using cloud infrastructure and it is being felt beyond the domain of the IT department,” commented Chris Chelliah, Oracle's APAC group VP and chief architect for technology and cloud.
“These investments are driving significant improvements in productivity and giving organizations the ability to shift resource to projects that make valuable contributions from those that are just keeping the lights on.”
First published in NetworksAsia