(Maxwell Cooter, TechWorld) European cloud users see email as the first technology to be ported to the cloud, in stark contrast to North Americans who see software testing as the main reason to go down the cloud route. Furthermore, European companies are giving a massive thumbs-up to cloud with 70% of IT execs agreeing that "cloud services are becoming more important to organizations as solutions to practical problems".

The findings were revealed by a new survey carried out assessing the attitudes to cloud technology within a group of IT professionals in the UK, Germany, France and Italy. The survey, carried out by F5, followed a similar exercise carried out earlier in the year in North America.

Not only is email the favorite cloud application with 58% of European companies considering it being actively used, but it's also top of the pops when it comes to the application expected to grow fastest with 58% of respondents expecting to see growth.