Cloud computing is fast moving to become a mature technology, with 75 per cent of businesses either using the cloud or mulling over plans to use it, a fresh survey sponsored by business technology services firm Avanade claims.

Avanade surveyed 573 C-level executives, IT decision makers and enterprise leaders, and found 74 per cent of enterprises saying they were using cloud computing, while three-quarters saying that cloud computing was in their future plans.

Seventy-five per cent of C-level executives said cloud computing was their top priority, while 60 per cent of enterprises kept cloud computing on the top in the list of their priorities.

Forty-three per cent of enterprises were found using cloud services from private companies.

However, executives expressed concerns about growing pains of cloud computing. 20 peer cent of respondents said it was impossible to handle all the cloud services within their organizations.

Separately, a study by Red Shift Research claimed that public sector is slow to adopt cloud computing, compared to private sector. According to the study, merely 23 per cent of public sector organizations are reaping the benefits of cloud computing, vs. 42 per cent of private sector organizations.