How and Why Canadian Enterprises are Exploring Cloud Computing

Optimizing infrastructure, reducing costs and delivering IT faster than ever before, is a fact of life for IT professionals. In the last few years, some significant cost savings have been realized through server virtualization and consolidation. However, as organizations look to further reduce costs, opportunities have arisen to utilize pools of technology components that are device and location independent - or "cloud computing."

The extent to which Canadian IT professionals are embracing cloud computing is relatively unknown, as is the connection between virtualization and cloud adoption. To examine this topic, a study was conducted asking Canadian IT professionals about their virtualization efforts and their public and private cloud initiatives.