Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
By Michael VizardEnterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
What Types of Cloud Computing Platforms Is Your Organization Using? 37% of organizations use public IaaS clouds, 37% of organizations use private, on-premise IaaS, 35% of organizations use private, off-premise IaaS
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
When Did Your Organization First Adopt Cloud Computing? Almost half have more than a year's worth of cloud computing experience. Zero to six months ago -16%, Six months to a year ago – 35%, One to two years ago – 34%, Two or more years ago – 15%
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Types of IaaS Clouds in Use IaaS usage cuts across all forms of cloud services. 75% of organizations use public IaaS, 70% of organizations use private, on-premise IaaS, 65% of organizations use private, off-premise IaaS
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
How Many Types of Cloud Are in Use? Once organizations get comfortable with cloud computing, it tends to multiply quickly. 45% that use at least one public IaaS, use two or more., 50% that use at least one private, on-premise cloud, use two or more., 43% that use at least one private, off-premise cloud, use two or more.
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Use of Hybrid Clouds? As hybrid clouds become the norm, larger organizations are 46% more likely to use them. 71% of organizations using public or private IaaS, use hybrid clouds, 86% of organizations with more than 1,000 employees, use hybrid clouds., 59% of organizations with fewer than 1,000 employees, use hybrid clouds
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Most Important Public Cloud Preferences Beyond Security Reliability and availability – 67%, Consistency of performance – 64%, Performance – 63%
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Other Important Public Cloud Attributes? A clear majority identified cloud infrastructure as a highly or somewhat important issue. Flexibility and control over storage configuration – 81%, Variety of network connectivity options – 81%, Quality of Infrastructure components – 79%, Availability of multiple data centers – 76%, Flexibility and control over network configuration – 76%
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Importance of Private Cloud Attributes Flexibility in private cloud computing deployments is rated as being highly or somewhat important. Security for sensitive data – 93%, Better provisioning – 91%, Advanced management – 87%, Allow use of existing infrastructure to build private cloud – 85%, Integrated solution – 83%
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Preferred Type of Company from Which to Purchase Private Cloud Software? Systems vendors have the inside track., Diversified systems vendor – 25%, Consulting organization or systems integrator – 22%, Public cloud service provider – 20%, Independent software vendor – 14%, Open source software organization – 12%
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Importance of Hybrid Cloud Attributes Any IT function relating to agility was rated highly important or somewhat important. Ability to access data in another cloud – 86%, Ability to pool resources across multiple clouds – 85%, Ability to move applications to a second cloud – 83%, Run multi-tier applications across multiple clouds – 83% Ability to Scale Out to a Second Cloud – 82%
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Other Important Hybrid Cloud Attributes These attributes were rated as highly important or somewhat important., Federated data access – 89%, Consistent levels of governance and security – 85%, Single sign-on authentication – 84%, Low-latency network connectivity – 83%, Management Tools – 81%
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
Cloud Application Usage Disaster recovery – 94%, Application testing – 93%, Production applications of average importance – 92%, Mission-Critical applications – 88%, Non-Essential production applications – 83%
Enterprise IT Gains Cloud Sophistication
First Choice of IT Deployment Private on-premise IaaS – 31%, Hybrid Cloud – 23%, Private off-premise IaaS – 17%, Public IaaS – 17%, Traditional on-premise – 11%