Cloud

The Technology Powerhouse

Ongoing and Steady Cloud Growth

Room to grow

56%

Organizations with at least

one application in the cloud

57%

are still identifying IT

operations that are
candidates for cloud hosting

72%

2012

16%
plan to use cloud-

2015

based apps within

the next 12 months

11%

plan to use cloudbased apps within

1 to 3 years

Which cloud models are you using?

up from

61% 58% 26%

private

public

19%
last year

hybrid

Factors which determine cloud migration

Sensitivity of the
data accessing or
being accessed by
the application

83%

Importance of
the application
to daily business
operations

Cost
associated
with migrating
the application

82%

75%

Direction of Cloud Spending

Average
investment

Enterprise

$2.87M

$1.56

SMB

$578,000

Million

Wheres the cloud budget going?

25%

51%

of IT budgets
will be allocated
to cloud within
the next year

SaaS

19%
30%

PaaS
IaaS

Cloud Investment Goals

Enterprise

1
2
3

SMB

Replacing on-premise
legacy technology
Speed of
deployment
Lower total cost
of ownership

1
2
3

Enabling business
continuity
Lower total cost
of ownership
Improving customer
support or services

When investing in cloud platforms, do

organizations purchase directly through vendors?

Purchase
directly through
cloud vendors

through
a reseller

27%

73%

through
a system
integrator

18%

The CIO leads the cloud purchase process

Who has significant influence?

CIO or top IT
executive

73%

CTO or
IT/networking
architect/engineer

55%

CSO/CISO or head
of IT security

48%

Clouds Leading a New Enterprise Future

IT decision-makers report that end user
interest in cloud technology is driven by
Improved
access to
corporate data
The ability to be more
productive/better
time management
Better collaboration
with co-workers and
other stakeholders

65%
48%
47%

In 12 months, cloud strategy will include:

1. Cloud management, monitoring or optimization tools
2. Cloud security management
3. Big data tools to help extract and analyze cloud data
4. Compliance management
5. Open source development tools

With Control Comes Challenges

Top challenges to implementing cloud strategy

Security
of cloud
computing
solutions

Concerns
around
integration

Meeting
enterprise
and/or industry
standards

67%

43%

35%

But, public cloud concerns are lessening

Uncertain ability to enforce security
policies at a provider site

2014 56%

2015 41%

Access across an
untrusted network

2014 45%

2015 41%

Uncertain ability
to recover data

2014 40%

2015 35%

IDG Enterprise 2015

Cloud Computing Survey
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