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Thomas Bittman is a vice president and distinguished analyst with Gartner Research. Mr. Bittman has led the industry in areas such as private cloud computing and virtualization. Mr. Bittman invented the term "real-time infrastructure," which has been adopted by major vendors and many… Read Full Bio

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Cloud Computing Inquiries at Gartner

by Tom Bittman  |  October 29, 2009  |  9 Comments

Gartner analysts answer thousands of questions daily on various IT topics, and we learn a lot about IT trends by talking to our clients. For example, for the last twelve months we answered more than 1,000 inquiries from clients specifically on the topic of cloud computing. Which end-user verticals are asking the most questions?

  1. Financial services (12%)
  2. Manufacturing (10%)
  3. Business and management services (10%)
  4. Telecommunications and equipment (9%)
  5. Government (7%)
  6. Insurance (6%)
  7. Oil, gas and electric (5%)
  8. Professional/specialized services (5%)
  9. Schools and education services (4%)
  10. Food (4%)
  11. Retail (4%)
  12. Healthcare (4%)
  13. Media (3%)
  14. Chemical and pharmaceutical (3%)
  15. Military and National Security (3%)
  16. Freight services (2%)
  17. Energy management (2%)
  18. Membership organizations (2%)
  19. Commercial physical research (1%)
  20. Other (4%)

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  • 2 Ken Oestreich   October 29, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    It would be nice if you also compared the Gartner client breakdown so we knew which sectors had disproportionately high (or low) inquiry rates!

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  • 4 Geva Perry   October 30, 2009 at 10:35 am

    My take away is that interest in cloud is pretty much across the board.

  • 5 Tom Bittman   October 30, 2009 at 10:43 am

    Geva – agree – not an unusual slant toward any particular industry, not surprising that financial services is high. Breadth of interest is a data point in itself.

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  • 7 Natalie L. Robb   December 1, 2009 at 6:20 pm

    Looks pretty much like any distribution you’d see for high performance networking equipment, in general.

  • 8 Karin Wacaser   January 28, 2010 at 3:49 pm

    Just curious, where do hotels fit into those sectors? We have seen a lot of interest from hotels in our e-procurement/AP application, which is certainly “in the clouds.” …..

  • 9 harsha k   January 15, 2013 at 1:32 pm

    i m doing phd in the same ” implimentation of cloud computing for institutions upgradations” , can u help me in that

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