Adoption of cloud computing on the up

Findings from a recent report performed by ServiceNow (an enterprise cloud company) have demonstrated an increase in cloud computing adoption by European manufacturers.

Based on a global survey of 1,850 mid- to senior-level managers the survey revealed that 86% of European manufacturing organisations will complete the move to cloud based operations in two years. This is significantly more than the average of 77% for other sectors analysed, including financial services and retail.

Drivers for this change in adoption strategy were also examined with the majority of respondents stating DevOps as the major driving factor.

“For years pundits have waited for an enterprise shift from traditional data centre computing to cloud computing. Today, reality meets hype in the manufacturing industry, and cloud-first consumption will accelerate at a break-neck speed in the next two years,” said Chris Pope, office of the chief strategy officer, ServiceNow. “Cloud is not new, so why was 2016 the year enterprises became cloud-first? According to the survey, the answer is the rise of DevOps. DevOps saw early that cloud computing could solve many of the issues they were grappling with.”