Enterprises deploy a cloud based environment to run their applications or infrastructure. This is a major driving factor in the rise of cloud investments being made by large-scale enterprises. These statistics swoop as high as millions of dollars. 

In the coming years, a fixed percentage of IT budgets will be dedicatedly allocated towards cloud hosting solutions. Current trends in the cloud industry predict that the highest percentage of funds will be allocated to the SaaS model. 

Interesting Features of Cloud Implementation:

- Majority of the enterprises today have either a slice of their computing infrastructure or at least one application in the cloud. Some such companies plan to use cloud-based applications and computing infrastructure on the cloud within this year. Many others are planning to deploy cloud-based applications in the near future.  

- Over the years, enterprise investment has increased in cloud computing. Average outlay by large-scale enterprises (which employ at least a thousand employees) has touched the million dollar mark this year. Similarly, SMBs are ready to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars upon cloud technology.

- While deploying cloud-based applications ensures seamless running of enterprises, it also guarantees a lower cost of ownership. These are the main reasons why enterprises have migrated their data to the cloud today. 

- Cloud has undoubtedly replaced on-premise legacy technologies. This is another critical reason as far as manufacturing firms are concerned. It has substituted legacy ERP systems with current and feature laden business models.

Enterprises are Planning to Migrate a Handful Few Application Areas to the Cloud. These are as Follows:

- Business/data analytics 
- Collaboration/conferencing resolutions
- IT infrastructure management 
- Data storage
- Data management
- CMS (Content management systems)

Yet there are three basic disconnects which hold cloud-based infrastructure and applications in place. These are security concerns, information governance as well as integration challenges. With relation to them, IT leaders have devised strategies to meet enterprise and industry standards overcoming these cloud computing adoption challenges.