When the television talent show The Voice of Holland caused a network traffic jump like never before due to a suspected distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, the cloud capacity scaled and it all turned out alright.
The TV show is one of many cloud users in the Netherlands, with about three-quarters of Dutch companies now using cloud in one way or another. This is according to research published in December 2016 by IT training provider Global Knowledge.
The study asked 500 Dutch organisations about their cloud usage, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and other forms of cloud, next to public and private clouds.
The main reasons for going into the cloud are typically to have more flexibility and better scalability, as well as to improve business performance and prevent up-front investments in hardware and software.
