Developers lead the way in the new age of Cloud

SANTA CRUZ, USA: Seventy-five percent of developers actively engaged in Cloud development expect their company's use to increase during the next twelve months; 42 per cent expect usage to grow by more than 20 per cent and 13.5 per cent expect usage to increase by more than 50 per cent according to a new survey from Evans Data Corp. 

Additionally, the new survey of over 400 developers active in Cloud development showed that only 7 per cent expected usage to decrease while 17.4 per cent expected Cloud use to remain the same.

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"Cloud delivers cost savings and on-demand scaling and the rush to adoption is picking up" said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data Corp.

"Developers lead the way in developing on both public and private Clouds or deploying to them, and the degree to which they’ve embraced this paradigm is resulting in a sea change in the way development is done and deployed.  We’re seeing this now and it will be even more apparent in the near future."

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Other highlights from this comprehensive survey, conducted in July 2011, of over 400 professional software developers active in Cloud development include:

* Nine in ten Cloud developers believe that using a cloud development platform saves time and 69 per cent think it saves 20 per cent or more

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* A third of Cloud developers create only one to five virtual images for their apps, suggesting they have a few standard images that they reuse time and again

* Cloud developers are most open to supporting new development models in support of on-demand scaling (28 per cent), while less than five percent would learn new programming languages