CA partners predict cloud boom

SaaS, PaaS and IaaS will all take off in 2011, according to CA partners quizzed in MSP Market Report

CA Technologies' UK partners are anticipating a huge spike in cloud adoption among their customers this year, according to research from the firm.

The vendor surveyed 965 of its partners across 15 EMEA countries in December and January, including 106 in the UK, for its MSP Market Report, which was released today.

UK partners indicated that nearly two-thirds (64 per cent) of their clients are using some form of cloud offering, but they expect this to hike to 87 per cent by the end of 2011.

Some 58 per cent of UK partners' customers are already using software-as-a-service (SaaS), with the equivalent figures for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) standing at 39 per cent and 24 per cent, respectively.

However, CA partners expect these percentages to rise sharply to 84 per cent, 78 per cent and 54 per cent by the end of 2011.

The report also suggested there will be a commensurate rise in the number of partners offering cloud. Just 41 per cent currently deliver managed services through IT management-as-a-service, the research found, but an additional 29 per cent plan to offer it by the end of the year.

David Griffiths, vice president of partners, alliances and MSPs in Europe at CA Technologies, said: "As cloud computing comes of age, our partners are increasingly making the jump to provide innovative cloud-based solutions to their customers."