Although cloud services continue to be a hot IT topic, a 2010 Quest Software survey revealed that 40 percent of businesses interviewed had yet to adopt a cloud solution and that, “After an initial surge of adoption, growth will slow until remaining companies see proof of success from early adopters.” A 2010 survey of senior level IT professionals conducted by Electric Cloud, a private development cloud company, and Osterman Research revealed that 52 percent of companies using cloud computing have cloud infrastructure resources that are rarely or never used and that 47 percent report some or lots of excess capacity. Gartner further reported that many companies are taking their on-premise bad habits into the cloud–like paying for unused software, also known as shelf-ware.
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