July's ActiveState quick poll focused on Cloud adoption, and revealed that developers are still feeling a little 'insecure' about the cloud. Responses revealed that it would probably take both a corporate mandate and better security before most would deploy to the cloud.

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When asked what the barriers when deploying to public clouds, again respondents ranked security higher than all other issues.

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This perception of a lack of security did not keep respondents from seeing real benefits in deploying to the Cloud: automation of scalability, fail over, and provisioning being the most compelling reason for moving to the cloud.

 

 

Thanks again to everyone who participated in the survey!

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