The Insight EMEA survey said that 57 per cent of respondents in the public sector were now evaluating cloud-hosted applications, but that only 22 per cent had deployed cloud technologies.
67 per cent had deployed server virtualization solutions to drive down IT costs and consolidate IT hardware, and others were found to be deploying or evaluating other virtualization technologies like application or desktop virtualization.
The survey said that 66 per cent believed the biggest influence on IT decision making over the next year would be increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
Responding to the survey, Guy Beaudin, public sector business development director at Insight said: "Based on this survey, the downturn is having a maintained effect on many organisations and their approach to IT spending. Organisations are considering their approach to how they source their IT requirements more carefully, and approaches based on cloud-hosted applications or shared services models are being implemented to meet the challenges of reduced budgets."
He added: "The report by Philip Green into public sector procurement shows that how services and IT assets are bought can vary wildly depending on the approach taken. From this survey, the process of looking at procurement methods is already well underway within public sector IT functions."
The survey also revealed that 40 per cent of respondents will be undertaking bite-sized projects that deliver value quickly.
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Quelle/Source: Public Service, 03.11.2010
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