Study to look at popularity of IT as a Utility
Study to look at popularity of IT as a Utility
The concept of IT as a utility is to be researched by a group of universities in the UK to establish why it has become an on-demand product for many businesses.
The university of Southampton is to lead the research consortium in their mission to look further into the growing popularity of IT as a Utility (ITaaU). The research will be carried out as part of the Digital Economy Programme. The researchers are intending to find out which barriers stand in the way of ITaaU take-up.
A spokesperson at Southampton University explained that businesses are seeing a greater and greater demand on their networks. He stated, “In our ever increasing connected digitally-driven society, many people are accustomed to broadband access to applications ranging from unlimited storage email accounts, to social networking on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, to web-based services for managing and sharing documents, music and photographs.
“Increasingly, commerce and industry use the same technologies to support their staff, market their products, service their customer base and manage their supply chains.”
The three-year research projects, known as ITaaU Network+, will aim to establish a safe and simple IT provision for various purposes and will examine the barriers that new users may perceive to be standing in their way.
Jeremy Frey, the Southampton university professor who is leading the research, said that Cloud models are changing the way people use IT.
“Cloud models for access to applications and infrastructure are now well established, and are changing the way users interact with applications, especially where the application is accessible from multiple devices and users.”
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