In the 2016 Cloud Priorities Survey, ViFX sought to understand the current uptake of public cloud in New Zealand and, if using public cloud, what aspects were providing challenges or are being given priority throughout the rest of 2016.

1. What’s hot in cloud
for New Zealand organisations
in 2016?

2. Despite the benefits of
cloud, organisations face
many challenges…

3. Which cloud provider
is the best fit
for their business?

4. How can they
best optimise
their cloud
environment?

5. How can they achieve
effective
cloud management
for billing and
managing subscriptions?

6. In the 2016 Cloud Priorities Survey,
ViFX sought to understand the
current uptake of public cloud
and, if using public cloud, what
aspects were providing
challenges or are being
given priority throughout
the rest of 2016.

7. Get the full 2016 Cloud Priorities Report here:
http://www.vifx.co.nz/cloud-priorities-report-2016
Cloud Priorities Report
May 2016

8. Here’s some of
what we uncovered…

9. 67%
of survey participants
are using public cloud

10. 24%
are not using
any public cloud
but have plans to
in the future

11. Their priority for assessing public cloud is:
High
44%
Medium
41%
Low
13%
None
2%

12. 41%
are using Azure
28%
are using AWS

13. Many participants selected
a range of public cloud service
providers, indicating that organisations
are already adopting a
MULTI-CLOUD STRATEGY

14. THEIR FOCUS AREAS FOR EXISTING
PUBLIC CLOUD USAGE ARE:

15. 28%
Want to make
the environment
more efficient

16. 20%
Want more
visibility into
their workloads
to check what
they’re paying for

17. 17%
Want to
simplify
invoicing

18. THEIR FOCUS AREAS FOR FUTURE
PUBLIC CLOUD USAGE ARE:

19. 29%
Want a one-stop
portal to manage all
cloud subscriptions
and billings

20. IN SUMMARY
It is clear to see that while current
cloud usage is high, and with almost all
organisations planning to use some form of public cloud
in the future, there is an evident desire for a structured
and considered strategy going forward.

21. This is just an excerpt of the Cloud Survey findings…
Get the full 2016 Cloud Priorities Report here:
http://www.vifx.co.nz/cloud-priorities-report-2016
Cloud Priorities Report
May 2016