A survey of public sector IT professionals in the federal government, that was released on Monday, reveals that only 6.9 percent of those surveyed think that accessing IT resources from a public cloud service is a viable strategy, while a vast majority of 68 percent support a private or hybrid cloud approach. The survey by Quest Software Public Sector, a division of Quest Software, also found that there’s still confusion among users about the differences between virtualization and cloud computing. And, notably, only one out of 10 respondents has devised an “exit strategy” to withdraw from cloud computing or transfer to another cloud service provider, which makes for a significant gap in cloud planning.
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