A new survey analysing the changing role of cloud computing for today’s businesses has found some new trends emerging.The survey – named the 2016 Future of Cloud Survey and led by North Bridge Growth Equity Venture Partners and research analyst firm Wikibon – gathered the thoughts of leading IT professionals, developers and technology decision makers from around the world.
Just 9% of the businesses surveyed are still to make the transition to the cloud, with 42% saying they are ‘cloud first or only’, and a further 49% using the cloud selectively.42% of companies derive 50% or more of their business through cloud-based applications. 30% of companies use the cloud use a public model, while 23% use a private model and 47% a hybrid model.Commenting on the findings, Julia White, corporate vice president, Azure and security marketing, described hybrid as being ‘the logical path forward’.
“In our own survey of 2,500 IT Professionals, we found that hybrid isn’t just a short term strategy – 9 in 10 of IT workers believe hybrid cloud will remain the approach for their organisations five years from now,” said White. “Every organisation has a unique set of existing systems and business policies, so taking the approach of using a mix of public cloud and on premises technology simply makes sense. This means organisations must ensure hybrid cloud is efficient.
Hybrid systems cannot be two separate infrastructures connected, but running in parallel; there must be consistency in management, security, and development experience to make this feasible.”The survey also found that the factors that are blocking cloud adoption are beginning to change, with vendor lock-in and privacy concerns being cited as the main issues. Companies are however becoming increasingly comfortable with the cloud from a security perspective.“While security continues as the top concern with using cloud, we’re pleased to see overall concern has dropped significantly since 2015,
” White said. “Interestingly in this survey, 50 percent of respondents cite security as a benefit of using cloud, while 50% say security is a barrier. We should expect this continue to tip in favour of cloud as a benefit moving forward.”“While security concerns are diminishing, privacy concerns are rising. In 2011, privacy didn’t even make the top list and has now risen to number three spot of cloud concerns. With new regulations such as GDPR, it makes sense that privacy concerns are on the rise and this will likely continue to increase. This also means that the privacy policies and privacy track-record of the global cloud providers should expect to come under greater scrutiny – appropriately so.”With regards to vendor lock-in, White was quick to point out that the cloud is ‘no different than on-premises technology’, and said that ‘customers need to know they can change course if and when needed’.“In a recent post on top cloud myths, I talked about why enterprises need multiple public cloud vendors, as well as the rise of multi-cloud management solutions for enterprises to manage these systems,” said White. “Belief that one cloud vendor can meet all needs is simply out of touch with reality and smacks of vendor hubris.
The balance for organisations is which mixture of cloud technology to tap into for their different needs. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) based business systems are the most efficient, but are equally non-portable as their on premises equivalents. Platform services provide greater development efficiency than infrastructure as a service (IaaS), but can be less portable. Fundamentally, the cloud doesn’t change vendor lock-in concerns or dynamics, but the reality in technology choices continues.”
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