A survey of 188 IT professionals from Nordic countries found: - 72% worked in application development and most had a developer background - Web applications and big data workloads could benefit most from cloud computing - One third were already running production workloads in public clouds, while others were using clouds for development or overflow - The main obstacle to cloud adoption was security risks - The primary benefits of cloud computing expected were access to on-demand infrastructure and the pay-as-you-go model

1. Cloud Adoption
in Northern Europe:
Developer Survey
November 2015
Cygate and Apcera surveyed 188 IT professionals attending developer conferences Øredev (Malmö,
Sweden, Nov 4-6) and µcon (Stockholm, Sweden, Nov 5-6) about their usage and attitudes towards
public cloud. The majority of the respondents work in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland or
Germany, and represent both multinational and regional companies.

2. 72%
6% 6% 6% 6%
2% 2% 1% 1%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
Application
development
Enterprise
architecture
Other IT leadership QA/DevOps IT operations Testing CIO / CTO Security
Question 1. What’s your primary area of responsibility?
Three out of four survey respondents have a developer background
Source: Cygate and Apcera Survey of 188 IT professionals attending Oredev and Mucon conferences, November 2015

3. 42%
20%
14%
12%
8%
4%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
Web applications Big data Containerized
workloads
Cloud native apps Internet-of-things Other
Question 2. What types of workloads at your
organization can benefit the most from cloud
computing? (Select all that apply)
Nordic enterprises are primarily running web applications in the cloud today
but big data workloads are already an important use case
Source: Cygate and Apcera Survey of 188 IT professionals attending Oredev and Mucon conferences, November 2015

4. 39.0%
29.7%
22.0%
8.7%
0.3% 0.3%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
Development Production or
Production
overflow
Test or Quality
Assurance
None Microservices Considering
Question 3. What kind of workloads is your
organization considering to execute, or already
executing in a public cloud environment? (Select all
that apply)
One third of Nordic enterprises are already running production workloads in
the cloud
Source: Cygate and Apcera Survey of 188 IT professionals attending Oredev and Mucon conferences, November 2015

5. 27%
16% 15% 14%
12%
7%
5%
3%
1% 1%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
Question 4. What are the main obstacles
to cloud adoption at your organization?
(Select all that apply)
Security risks are by far the largest obstacle to cloud adoption in the Nordics
Source: Cygate and Apcera Survey of 188 IT professionals attending Oredev and Mucon conferences, November 2015

6. 34%
23%
18%
15%
9%
1%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
Infrastructure on
demand
Pay as you go
model
Faster time to
market
Disaster recovery Outsourcing of non-
core competencies
High availability
Question 5. What benefits of cloud
computing are you expecting? (Select
all that apply)
Access to IT resources on-demand and OPEX based payment model are the
main drivers to cloud in the Nordic markets
Source: Cygate and Apcera Survey of 188 IT professionals attending Oredev and Mucon conferences, November 2015

7. 36%
26%
16%
14%
7%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
Nice to have Not really that important Public is not an option
for us
It’s in our Roadmap Absolutely imperative
Question 6: How important is it for
your organisation to be able to
distribute workloads between multiple
public cloud IaaS vendors (Amazon,
Azure, vCloud Air)?
Multi-cloud support is not yet a mandatory requirement for most Nordic
enterprises but this is likely to change as more workloads move to the cloud and
more companies will be afraid of vendor lock-in
Source: Cygate and Apcera Survey of 188 IT professionals attending Oredev and Mucon conferences, November 2015

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Source: Cygate and Apcera Survey of 188 IT professionals attending Oredev and Mucon conferences, November 2015