Extracted from - Data Centre Management -  July 2010

"European enterprises are beginning to embrace the business opportunities offered by virtualising assets and accessing applications through the cloud, according to new research, commissioned by Brocade.

The research shows that 60 percent of Enterprises surveyed expect to have started the planning and migration to a distributed - or cloud - computing model withing the next two years.

Key business drivers for doing so are:

- to reduce cost (30%)

- improve business efficiency (21%)

- enhanced business agility (16%)

Business Network is well placed to assist in the transition, providing an all inclusive package including infrastructure, apps and professional support.