More than one in four developers in the Asia Pacific region are
using cloud services or expect to within the next six months, Evans
Data officials said. According to the market research firm's most
recent Asia Pacific Development survey, 11.3 percent of respondents
said they are currently using cloud services, with an additional 16.4
percent saying they plan to begin using them within six months. And
over half of the respondents said they expect to be using cloud
services at some time.
Evans Data's biannual survey of more than 400 Asia Pacific software
developers also showed that transactions were the most likely type of
implementations to be planned for public clouds – those outside the
firewall – while storage was the least likely.
“The cloud computing value proposition has been more compelling in
the APAC [Asia Pacific] region vs. NA [North America] or
EMEA [Europe, the Middle East and Africa],” said John
Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data. "Their primary
motivations for adoption have been ease of use/speed to market and the
overall economics/cost savings which relate well to the youngest and
most inexperienced developer population where eight of 10 work in
small organizations.”
Other highlights from the survey include:
- Sixteen percent of Asia Pacific developers employ Microsoft
Silverlight some of the time but an additional 34 percent expect to do
so.
- Three quarters of Asia Pacific developers are considering SOA
implementations, though less than 10 percent are currently fully
deployed.
- PayPal is the most commonly used form of online payment system
being built into applications – its use is more than three times as
common as Google Checkout.
With its Asia Pacific developer survey, Evans Data measures major
technology shifts and adoption patterns for a wide range of topics,
including scripting language use; 3GL language use such as C++, C# and
Java; platform targeting and migration; and other technology adoption
including cloud, Web services, SOA, parallel programming and agile
development trends. The survey series is now in its 11th year.
The complete table of contents and sample pages of the Evans Data Asia Pacific Development Survey can be seen here.
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