In December 2013, Gigaom surveyed 408 IT professionals working in software development within enterprise IT organizations. Our survey participants answered 13 questions about how they develop software in the enterprise, as well as about their experiences, perceptions, and concerns about the cloud for enterprise-application development. The cloud in our context includes Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), although the nature of the questions and the related answers are geared more toward the PaaS cloud model.
The responses to this survey show that enterprises that are currently using the cloud are seeing improvements in time to market as well as higher productivity. They show the cloud represents a tremendous opportunity for enterprise IT to create elastic infrastructure that enables business agility so they can remain competitive in a world that increasingly moves at startup speed.
