CDW: 28% U.S. orgs using cloud computing
One-third of healthcare organizations responding to a CDW survey, titled “From Tactic to Strategy: The 2011 Cloud Computing Tracking Poll,” said they are implementing or maintaining cloud-based systems, just ahead of respondents in government but behind higher education and large businesses.
In the survey, titled “From Tactic to Strategy: The 2011 Cloud Computing Tracking Poll,” CDW polled 1,200 IT professionals on their current and future use of cloud computing. Across all industries, the applications most commonly operated in the cloud included email (50 percent of cloud users), file storage (39 percent), web and videoconferencing (36 and 32 percent, respectively) and online learning
(34 percent), according to CDW, of Vernon Hills, Ill.