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13 Cloud Comput ing St at s for CIOs Cloud adopt ion is saving government s t ime and money . Here are t he numbers t o prove it . Jim m y Daly posted Septem ber 5, 2 01 3
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gov ernm ents alike. Its im portant that the data be exam ined, especially by local gov ernm ents, because it indicates an ov erwhelm ing acceptance of cloud serv ices, driv en heav ily by em ploy ees personal use of the technology . There are also a num ber of case studies em erging that point to a more efficient, less expensive future for local governments . In Som erset County , Maine, v irtualized serv ers and cut the county s operating budget by 4 0 percent, thanks to reduced power and cooling costs. The Southeastern Libraries Cooperating/Southeast Library Sy stem prov ides IT support for 88 libraries in 1 1 Minnesota counties. A m ov e to Googles cloud-based em ail sav ed the library sy stem $2 1 ,000 alm ost im m ediately . The benefits and side effects of the cloud are obv ious. Here are a few im portant num bers that CIOs should pay close attention to:

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Number of phy sical servers in t he world (Source)

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CIOs who cut applicat ion cost s by moving t o t he cloud (Source)

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IT st aff who say employ ees personal use of t he cloud has influenced ent erprise

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Server workloads t hat will be virt ualized in 2013 (Source)

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CIOs who indicat e t hat cloud comput ing is t heir t op priorit y (Source)
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Percent age of t he cloud market spent on advert ising in 2012 (Source)

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Expect ed growt h of global IaaS market in 2013, t o $ 9 billion (Source)

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St at e and local government s t hat implement ed cloud services in 2012 (Source)

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