Report: CIOs believe majority of IT infrastructure will be cloud-based within 4 years

Cloud computing continues to show increased growth among businesses of all sizes, according to several reports. Technology research and business insight firm Gartner recently released its 2011 CIO Agenda Survey, which reiterated this fact.

Of the 2,014 chief information officers polled, 43 percent believe the majority of their IT infrastructure will run on cloud technologies within the next four years. The figure is significant when compared to the 3 percent of businesses that currently do so.

“These companies are going to cloud within the next four years and these are the CIOs who will be there to make it happen,” Gartner’s group vice president and co-author of the report, Mark McDonald, stated recently.

A majority of CIOs have already begun preparing for this migration, Forbes blog writer Rik Fairlie states. The IT leaders are doing so by avoiding any technologies that can’t be virtualized.

A recent report from a major technology company supports this trend, claiming virtualization is key to strengthening adoption rates of cloud computing among companies.