Despite claims that 2017 would be the “year of the cloud” only 10% of UK businesses have successfully managed to move their entire organisation to the cloud. That’s according to a new Breaking Barriers 2020 report from Fuze, which examines the changing nature of corporate IT and communications.
According to the report – which incorporates research carried out with more than 900 CIOs – the UK continues to lag behind both North America and the rest of Europe when it comes to cloud adoption. While only 10% of UK businesses have moved their entire organisation to the cloud, 45% of American firms have already completed the switch.
However, while few UK businesses have completed their move, around half (49%) have adopted a formal cloud initiative across at least part of their organisation and a further 28% of UK CIOs say their businesses are in the process of implementing a cloud roll-out.
One area where cloud adoption is growing, however, is in the communications sector, with 57% of CIOs saying that their organisations are pushing towards cloud-based solutions for all of their communications apps.
