According to the Evans Data Cloud Development Survey, 48.9 percent
of developers surveyed said they plan to deploy applications in a
private cloud in the coming year. The survey also showed that 29.7
percent of developers polled said they are currently working on
applications destined for a private cloud environment, while an
additional 19.2 percent said they expect to enter development within
the next 12 months.
A private cloud is proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to users behind a firewall.
”Software developers are finding many reasons to develop software
for the cloud, whether for a private cloud or public cloud,” said John
Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data, in a statement. "Not
surprising, while developers want to take advantage of the cloud, our
research indicates a strong preference for them to favor a
cloud-related development environment to simply extend their existing
technology know-how.”
Evans Data polled more than 500 developers for its survey to measure
their intentions and adoption patterns related to cloud development.
The key areas of interest in the survey included public and private
cloud development, types of applications moving first to the cloud,
development dynamics and tools for developing in the cloud, data
centers and virtualization, security, regulations, benefits, and
inhibitors.
Meanwhile, the Evans Data survey also showed that 48 percent of the
developers surveyed said they believe Java is the best language for
developing in the cloud, followed by C#. Moreover, according to the
survey, half of the developers using Amazon public cloud services are
using them experimentally or for prototyping rather than for business
critical applications. And three quarters of developers said they think
that data for applications deployed in the cloud should be backed up
outside the public cloud -- either in traditional onsite storage or in
a private cloud, Evans Data officials said.
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