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Cloud Computing Confusing to Many: Survey

eWeek: A new survey conducted by Citrix reveals that most people don’t know what cloud computing is. Only 16 percent correctly responded that cloud computing is a computer network to store, access and share data from Internet-connected devices. Other answers included an actual cloud, the sky, something related to the weather, toilet paper, pillow, smoke, […]

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Aug 29, 2012

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eWeek: A new survey conducted by Citrix reveals that most people don’t know what cloud computing is. Only 16 percent correctly responded that cloud computing is a computer network to store, access and share data from Internet-connected devices. Other answers included an actual cloud, the sky, something related to the weather, toilet paper, pillow, smoke, outer space, cyber-space, mysterious network, unreliable, security, sadness, relaxed, overused, oh goody a hacker’s dream, storage, movies, money, memory, backup, joy, innovation, drugs, heaven and a place to meet.

Other interesting findings from the survey include the following:

51 percent of respondents believe stormy weather can interfere with cloud computing.
54 percent of respondents claim to never use cloud computing.
95 percent of respondents actually have used the cloud (based on their answers to other questions).
22 percent of respondents say they have pretended to know what the cloud is.
68 percent of respondents say the cloud offers economic benefits.
59 percent of respondents say the “workplace of the future” will exist entirely in the cloud.

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