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The RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report is now hot off the press. It includes insights based on the responses of more than 1,000 IT professionals to give you a comprehensive picture of cloud adoption trends. The survey results provide the hard data you need to benchmark your organization against others of similar size, develop your 2017 cloud strategy and goals, and mobilize your internal stakeholders for cloud initiatives.
2018 Cloud Trends: RightScale State of the Cloud ReportRightScale
The RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report has just been released. It includes new insights on cloud adoption trends. We highlight the most interesting cloud trends that will help you evolve your cloud strategy, deliver on your 2018 cloud goals, and mobilize your internal stakeholders for cloud initiatives
How 2015 Cloud Trends Should Impact Your 2016 Cloud StrategyRightScale
Your enterprise cloud strategy will have a significant impact on how IT can help drive your business over the next decade. However, the cloud landscape is moving quickly, so you’ll want to make sure you are adapting your strategy based on the latest innovations and trends that are impacting the use of cloud.
The use of cloud infrastructure is now a given for almost every enterprise. Managed services providers (MSPs), including hosters, outsourcers, and systems integrators, are finding that their customers want to use cloud services. But automation, optimization, and monetization requires a cloud management platform (CMP).
Multi-Cloud Management with RightScale CMP (Demo)RightScale
Almost every enterprise will face the challenge of multi-cloud management. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker standardized cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Pivoting to Cloud: How an MSP Brokers Cloud Services RightScale
Many Managed Services Providers (MSPs) are looking to shift their cloud services offerings to encompass public and private cloud options. Learn how one MSP, Offis, uses RightScale to broker services across a variety of cloud providers as well as virtualized environments in order to serve the diverse needs of its customers.
Automating Multi-Cloud Policies for AWS, Azure, Google, and MoreRightScale
With the explosion of cloud use, enterprises need to implement appropriate governance controls. Automated policies can optimize costs and ensure that operational, compliance, and security requirements are met. Using RightScale, you can create a single policy to work across all of your clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware vSphere.
The RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report is now hot off the press. It includes insights based on the responses of more than 1,000 IT professionals to give you a comprehensive picture of cloud adoption trends. The survey results provide the hard data you need to benchmark your organization against others of similar size, develop your 2017 cloud strategy and goals, and mobilize your internal stakeholders for cloud initiatives.
2018 Cloud Trends: RightScale State of the Cloud ReportRightScale
The RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report has just been released. It includes new insights on cloud adoption trends. We highlight the most interesting cloud trends that will help you evolve your cloud strategy, deliver on your 2018 cloud goals, and mobilize your internal stakeholders for cloud initiatives
How 2015 Cloud Trends Should Impact Your 2016 Cloud StrategyRightScale
Your enterprise cloud strategy will have a significant impact on how IT can help drive your business over the next decade. However, the cloud landscape is moving quickly, so you’ll want to make sure you are adapting your strategy based on the latest innovations and trends that are impacting the use of cloud.
The use of cloud infrastructure is now a given for almost every enterprise. Managed services providers (MSPs), including hosters, outsourcers, and systems integrators, are finding that their customers want to use cloud services. But automation, optimization, and monetization requires a cloud management platform (CMP).
Multi-Cloud Management with RightScale CMP (Demo)RightScale
Almost every enterprise will face the challenge of multi-cloud management. A cloud management platform (CMP) can help you broker standardized cloud services with a single view across both public and private clouds, giving you control over existing cloud usage and enabling you to offer self-service provisioning across all your clouds and virtualized infrastructure.
Pivoting to Cloud: How an MSP Brokers Cloud Services RightScale
Many Managed Services Providers (MSPs) are looking to shift their cloud services offerings to encompass public and private cloud options. Learn how one MSP, Offis, uses RightScale to broker services across a variety of cloud providers as well as virtualized environments in order to serve the diverse needs of its customers.
Automating Multi-Cloud Policies for AWS, Azure, Google, and MoreRightScale
With the explosion of cloud use, enterprises need to implement appropriate governance controls. Automated policies can optimize costs and ensure that operational, compliance, and security requirements are met. Using RightScale, you can create a single policy to work across all of your clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMware vSphere.
A cloud management platform (CMP) is fast becoming a de facto requirement for enterprises pursuing a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy. But what should you be looking for in a CMP? Many companies make the mistake of taking a “boil the ocean” approach to a CMP evaluation. We’ll share best practices and discuss whether you need an RFP.
How to Report and Optimize Cloud Costs Across All Your Clouds by RightScaleRightScale
With companies using six different clouds on average, it can be difficult to manage and optimize cloud spend. IT and financial managers need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. This deck covers how to use RightScale to:
• Adjust cloud bills to account for markups or discounts
• Allocate costs for showback or chargeback
• Implement budget alerts
• Avoid zombie instances and other waste
• Use pricing data to proactively save money
For a free tool to compare public clouds, go to www.cloudcomparison.rightscale.com
Cloud Acquisition Strategies:
How to Buy the Cloud
This presentation explores different options for acquiring cloud technologies and addresses the challenges faced by public sector organizations in moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model
Speaker: Andrew Phillips, Country Manager, Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
10 Must-Have Automated Cloud Policies for IT GovernanceRightScale
As both cloud use and spend increase, enterprises need to implement automated cloud governance. IT leaders must avoid impeding the agility that cloud provides while ensuring efficient cloud spend and reducing risk. In this webinar, we will cover 10 automated policies that every enterprise should have as part of IT governance best practices for cloud.
How to Manage Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
With cloud use rising, managing cloud costs for your enterprise becomes more critical. To effectively control costs, you can leverage a cloud cost management tool like RightScale Optima to collaborate across your organization to report on and optimize your cloud spend.
How to Use RightScale CMP to Manage Cloud: In-Depth DemoRightScale
Enterprises are quickly realizing that a cloud management platform (CMP) is a critical foundation for managing and optimizing cloud use. Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, RightScale CMP gives you visibility, governance, cost management, automation, and orchestration for resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure. See an in-depth demo of RightScale that shows how.
How to Allocate and Report Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Spend on cloud is increasing, but getting cloud costs allocated to the right business units can still be challenging, especially when you are using multiple clouds. You need automated tools that enable you to allocate costs from your cloud bill and report on spend to users across your organization.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
The 5 Stages of Cloud Management for EnterprisesRightScale
With cloud use exploding and cloud bills skyrocketing, enterprises are implementing new cloud governance processes and tools. A cloud management platform (CMP) will be a foundational technology you’ll need to get it all under control. We cover the 5 stages of cloud management that enterprises go through to fully manage their cloud use, and how a CMP helps.
Successful Cloud Orchestration with RightScale CMPRightScale
As cloud use explodes, it’s important to develop a strategy for orchestrating and automating across all your cloud and non-cloud infrastructure environments. However, the use of the term orchestration has become overloaded and can refer to many different types of tools. Learn about the different types of orchestration automation tools and the role a cloud management platform (CMP) can play as an “orchestrator of orchestrators.”
Hybrid Cloud Orchestration: How SuperChoice Does ItRightScale
Automation and orchestration are key to cloud success, especially in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Find out how Superchoice, a leading fintech company based in Australia, and Offis, a hybrid cloud services company, are using RightScale CMP to automate the delivery of 200+ applications across AWS, Azure, and VMware.
How to Manage VMware vSphere Like AWS and AzureRightScale
With the rapid growth in adoption in public cloud, developers have come to expect easy, fast provisioning and automated management of workloads. Enterprises are seeking to provide the same benefits on their existing VMware infrastructure, but vSphere alone doesn’t satisfy all of the requirements that users demand. We discuss how the RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere can make your VMware vSphere clusters provide many of the same benefits as AWS and Azure by enabling the automation and agility that developers need.
Optimize Software, SaaS, and Cloud with Flexera and RightScaleRightScale
Flexera and RightScale have now joined forces to help you optimize the technologies you use. Learn how Flexera solutions for software license optimization and SaaS management complement RightScale cloud management and cost optimization offerings to give you comprehensive management of your technology spend.
Keeping an application running at scale can be a daunting task. When do you need to add more capacity? Larger databases? Additional servers? These questions get harder as the complexity of your application grows. Microservice based architectures and cloud-based dynamic infrastructures are technologies that help you keep your application running with high availability, even during times of extreme scaling. We will discuss some of the best practices we’ve learned working with New Relic customers on how you can manage your applications running at scale, and how technologies such as microservices and dynamic infrastructure can help you with this challenge.
As presented by Lee Atchison, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture of New Relic at Amazon Web Services Summit, Sydney on April 6, 2017.
2016 Cloud Trends and Stats: RightScale State of the Cloud ReportRightScale
In January 2016, RightScale conducted its fifth annual State of the Cloud Survey of the latest cloud computing trends, with a focus on infrastructure-as-a-service. We highlight several key findings from the survey, including stats on hybrid cloud adoption, top challenges among cloud users, and the demand for DevOps. We've also provided a link to download the full report for free.
12 Ways to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Cloud SpendRightScale
It can be difficult to manage cloud costs. As a result, you are likely wasting 30-45 percent or more of your cloud spend. Cloud governance, IT, and finance teams need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to the appropriate departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. In this webinar, we will show you how to manage cloud costs and optimize spend.
Prepare Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy for 2019: 7 Things to Think About NowRightScale
Cloud adoption just keeps on growing and now is the time to take control. Your enterprise cloud strategy for 2019 needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy should also cover implications for your technical processes, as well as supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
RightScale Webinar: The Five Critical Steps to Develop a Cloud StrategyRightScale
With the advent of the public cloud, central IT has a mandate to not be left behind. Having an organization-wide cloud strategy is imperative for maximizing IT agility, while maintaining centralized control and mitigating “shadow IT”.
Your cloud strategy should be aligned to maximize your business value. The question is how? In this webinar we show our our five-step framework, based on helping over 1,000 organizations achieve cloud success.
You'll learn how to:
1. Identify your cloud motivations
2. Assess your current cloud maturity
3. Overcome the four common cloud challenges
4. Plan your cloud portfolio
5. Choose your cloud adoption pattern - Cloud First, Targeted, or Grass Roots
Cloud offers organizations the opportunity to run their workloads on physical machines at a reduced cost, with better overall performance and enhanced security. Yet engaging in a partial or total migration to cloud requires a solid, holistic strategy that focuses on technical and management challenges that will likely arise, and an organizational mindset that will help ensure the migration’s success. This introductory, vendor agnostic talk will highlight the technical, management and cultural considerations that every cloud migration strategy should consider, how to address some common challenges, and best practices to help guide the process.
In today’s cloud-first environment, enterprises are embracing a heterogeneous cloud strategy that spans multiple public clouds as well as private clouds. This creates complexities for enterprise IT teams who need to ensure security across all of their applications and all of their infrastructure resources. This webinar will help you understand how to approach multi-cloud security.
Bessemer Venture Partners' is proud to share The State of the Cloud for 2017.
As the definitive guide to the biggest trends in the cloud industry, this year’s “State of the Cloud Report” includes:
1. A Look Back at 2016
- 2016 was a marquee year for a number of reasons. First, we all remember the rocky start in February where the Cloud Market dropped 35%
- Subsequently, rebounded back to normal levels and ended the year up +15%
- The dip in the market had two main outcomes: First, it led to unprecedented amounts of M&A (4x more than any other year and 40% of the total cloud market cap of $300B) – and second, it led to the fewest number of cloud tech IPOs since the financial crisis.
- A combination of these factors has led to the highest quality backlog of private cloud companies in history. The top 100 private Cloud companies alone represent over $100B of private enterprise value.
2. We provide a deeper look into the three top questions every private cloud CEO should be discussing with his/her executive team
- How fast should I be growing?
- How much should I burn?
- How do I scale?
3. Bessemer’s 7 Predictions for 2017
- The year of human assisted AI
- APIs will serve as the backbone for a majority of software infrastructure
- Architect for infinite scale without infinite spend
- Mobile unlocks non-desk worker productivity
- NPS everything
- Diverse teams win
- The screenless software movement
A cloud management platform (CMP) is fast becoming a de facto requirement for enterprises pursuing a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud strategy. But what should you be looking for in a CMP? Many companies make the mistake of taking a “boil the ocean” approach to a CMP evaluation. We’ll share best practices and discuss whether you need an RFP.
How to Report and Optimize Cloud Costs Across All Your Clouds by RightScaleRightScale
With companies using six different clouds on average, it can be difficult to manage and optimize cloud spend. IT and financial managers need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. This deck covers how to use RightScale to:
• Adjust cloud bills to account for markups or discounts
• Allocate costs for showback or chargeback
• Implement budget alerts
• Avoid zombie instances and other waste
• Use pricing data to proactively save money
For a free tool to compare public clouds, go to www.cloudcomparison.rightscale.com
Cloud Acquisition Strategies:
How to Buy the Cloud
This presentation explores different options for acquiring cloud technologies and addresses the challenges faced by public sector organizations in moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model
Speaker: Andrew Phillips, Country Manager, Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
10 Must-Have Automated Cloud Policies for IT GovernanceRightScale
As both cloud use and spend increase, enterprises need to implement automated cloud governance. IT leaders must avoid impeding the agility that cloud provides while ensuring efficient cloud spend and reducing risk. In this webinar, we will cover 10 automated policies that every enterprise should have as part of IT governance best practices for cloud.
How to Manage Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
With cloud use rising, managing cloud costs for your enterprise becomes more critical. To effectively control costs, you can leverage a cloud cost management tool like RightScale Optima to collaborate across your organization to report on and optimize your cloud spend.
How to Use RightScale CMP to Manage Cloud: In-Depth DemoRightScale
Enterprises are quickly realizing that a cloud management platform (CMP) is a critical foundation for managing and optimizing cloud use. Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, RightScale CMP gives you visibility, governance, cost management, automation, and orchestration for resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure. See an in-depth demo of RightScale that shows how.
How to Allocate and Report Cloud Costs with RightScale OptimaRightScale
Spend on cloud is increasing, but getting cloud costs allocated to the right business units can still be challenging, especially when you are using multiple clouds. You need automated tools that enable you to allocate costs from your cloud bill and report on spend to users across your organization.
Using RightScale CMP with Cloud Provider ToolsRightScale
Large organizations are using cloud management platforms (CMPs) to manage and govern multi-cloud environments. They need their CMPs to work regardless of the cloud provider tools used by development teams, including AWS Cloud Formation templates, Azure Resource Manager templates, and container services. We will show how RightScale CMP can add operation orchestration and governance regardless of how you provision your workloads.
Tagging Best Practices for Cloud GovernanceRightScale
In the cloud, it’s critical to implement specific global tags across your organization that enable cloud governance and cost management. If, like most enterprises, you are using multiple clouds, you will want to ensure consistency across all of the clouds you use, despite varying tagging capabilities on each cloud.
The 5 Stages of Cloud Management for EnterprisesRightScale
With cloud use exploding and cloud bills skyrocketing, enterprises are implementing new cloud governance processes and tools. A cloud management platform (CMP) will be a foundational technology you’ll need to get it all under control. We cover the 5 stages of cloud management that enterprises go through to fully manage their cloud use, and how a CMP helps.
Successful Cloud Orchestration with RightScale CMPRightScale
As cloud use explodes, it’s important to develop a strategy for orchestrating and automating across all your cloud and non-cloud infrastructure environments. However, the use of the term orchestration has become overloaded and can refer to many different types of tools. Learn about the different types of orchestration automation tools and the role a cloud management platform (CMP) can play as an “orchestrator of orchestrators.”
Hybrid Cloud Orchestration: How SuperChoice Does ItRightScale
Automation and orchestration are key to cloud success, especially in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Find out how Superchoice, a leading fintech company based in Australia, and Offis, a hybrid cloud services company, are using RightScale CMP to automate the delivery of 200+ applications across AWS, Azure, and VMware.
How to Manage VMware vSphere Like AWS and AzureRightScale
With the rapid growth in adoption in public cloud, developers have come to expect easy, fast provisioning and automated management of workloads. Enterprises are seeking to provide the same benefits on their existing VMware infrastructure, but vSphere alone doesn’t satisfy all of the requirements that users demand. We discuss how the RightScale Cloud Appliance for vSphere can make your VMware vSphere clusters provide many of the same benefits as AWS and Azure by enabling the automation and agility that developers need.
Optimize Software, SaaS, and Cloud with Flexera and RightScaleRightScale
Flexera and RightScale have now joined forces to help you optimize the technologies you use. Learn how Flexera solutions for software license optimization and SaaS management complement RightScale cloud management and cost optimization offerings to give you comprehensive management of your technology spend.
Keeping an application running at scale can be a daunting task. When do you need to add more capacity? Larger databases? Additional servers? These questions get harder as the complexity of your application grows. Microservice based architectures and cloud-based dynamic infrastructures are technologies that help you keep your application running with high availability, even during times of extreme scaling. We will discuss some of the best practices we’ve learned working with New Relic customers on how you can manage your applications running at scale, and how technologies such as microservices and dynamic infrastructure can help you with this challenge.
As presented by Lee Atchison, Senior Director, Strategic Architecture of New Relic at Amazon Web Services Summit, Sydney on April 6, 2017.
2016 Cloud Trends and Stats: RightScale State of the Cloud ReportRightScale
In January 2016, RightScale conducted its fifth annual State of the Cloud Survey of the latest cloud computing trends, with a focus on infrastructure-as-a-service. We highlight several key findings from the survey, including stats on hybrid cloud adoption, top challenges among cloud users, and the demand for DevOps. We've also provided a link to download the full report for free.
12 Ways to Manage Cloud Costs and Optimize Cloud SpendRightScale
It can be difficult to manage cloud costs. As a result, you are likely wasting 30-45 percent or more of your cloud spend. Cloud governance, IT, and finance teams need to understand where costs are coming from, allocate those costs to the appropriate departments, and find ways to reduce waste and save money. In this webinar, we will show you how to manage cloud costs and optimize spend.
Prepare Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy for 2019: 7 Things to Think About NowRightScale
Cloud adoption just keeps on growing and now is the time to take control. Your enterprise cloud strategy for 2019 needs to address the broad impact of cloud use in your company. Your strategy should also cover implications for your technical processes, as well as supporting areas including finance, governance, organization, and culture.
RightScale Webinar: The Five Critical Steps to Develop a Cloud StrategyRightScale
With the advent of the public cloud, central IT has a mandate to not be left behind. Having an organization-wide cloud strategy is imperative for maximizing IT agility, while maintaining centralized control and mitigating “shadow IT”.
Your cloud strategy should be aligned to maximize your business value. The question is how? In this webinar we show our our five-step framework, based on helping over 1,000 organizations achieve cloud success.
You'll learn how to:
1. Identify your cloud motivations
2. Assess your current cloud maturity
3. Overcome the four common cloud challenges
4. Plan your cloud portfolio
5. Choose your cloud adoption pattern - Cloud First, Targeted, or Grass Roots
Cloud offers organizations the opportunity to run their workloads on physical machines at a reduced cost, with better overall performance and enhanced security. Yet engaging in a partial or total migration to cloud requires a solid, holistic strategy that focuses on technical and management challenges that will likely arise, and an organizational mindset that will help ensure the migration’s success. This introductory, vendor agnostic talk will highlight the technical, management and cultural considerations that every cloud migration strategy should consider, how to address some common challenges, and best practices to help guide the process.
In today’s cloud-first environment, enterprises are embracing a heterogeneous cloud strategy that spans multiple public clouds as well as private clouds. This creates complexities for enterprise IT teams who need to ensure security across all of their applications and all of their infrastructure resources. This webinar will help you understand how to approach multi-cloud security.
Bessemer Venture Partners' is proud to share The State of the Cloud for 2017.
As the definitive guide to the biggest trends in the cloud industry, this year’s “State of the Cloud Report” includes:
1. A Look Back at 2016
- 2016 was a marquee year for a number of reasons. First, we all remember the rocky start in February where the Cloud Market dropped 35%
- Subsequently, rebounded back to normal levels and ended the year up +15%
- The dip in the market had two main outcomes: First, it led to unprecedented amounts of M&A (4x more than any other year and 40% of the total cloud market cap of $300B) – and second, it led to the fewest number of cloud tech IPOs since the financial crisis.
- A combination of these factors has led to the highest quality backlog of private cloud companies in history. The top 100 private Cloud companies alone represent over $100B of private enterprise value.
2. We provide a deeper look into the three top questions every private cloud CEO should be discussing with his/her executive team
- How fast should I be growing?
- How much should I burn?
- How do I scale?
3. Bessemer’s 7 Predictions for 2017
- The year of human assisted AI
- APIs will serve as the backbone for a majority of software infrastructure
- Architect for infinite scale without infinite spend
- Mobile unlocks non-desk worker productivity
- NPS everything
- Diverse teams win
- The screenless software movement
7 Common Questions About a Cloud Management PlatformRightScale
You already know you need to deliver software more quickly. But what’s the best route to get that agility? Cloud, containers, and DevOps can all help, and a cloud management platform (CMP) pulls it all together. Get answers to the common questions about a CMP.
Automating Cloud Operations: Tips from Managed ServicesRightScale
Once you have applications deployed in the cloud, your Ops team comes to the fore. Whether you are an enterprise IT team or a managed services provider, you need to automate operations as much as possible to meet your SLAs. We’ll share lessons learned from RightScale Managed Services on making your cloud operations more efficient and effective.
Whether you are already using one or more clouds or just getting started, a cloud management platform (CMP) can help right now. Realize value quickly by using a CMP to gain control over existing cloud usage and then expand your cloud use with a CMP that standardizes how you manage and provision resources across all your cloud and virtualized infrastructure.
What Every MSP Needs to Know for Cloud SuccessRightScale
The use of cloud infrastructure is now a given for almost every enterprise. Managed services providers, including hosters, outsourcers, and systems integrators, are finding that their customers want to use cloud services, but monetization requires new approaches and skills. This deck covers:
• Why will cloud disrupt MSPs?
• The key challenges facing MSPs in a cloud world
• The skills gap and what it means
• Four critical requirements for every MSP to adapt
• MSP use cases for monetizing cloud
• Tips to market and sell your cloud services
Cloud Orchestration with RightScale Cloud WorkflowRightScale
Cloud orchestration tools let you automate both provisioning and ongoing operations for your cloud-based applications across all the cloud providers you use. We show you how RightScale Cloud Workflow provides the fine-grained control needed to meet real-world orchestration requirements.
How to Operate in the Cloud Using ServiceNow, RightScale and MoreRightScale
With cloud use now a given, IT teams are taking on the role of brokering cloud services across the enterprise. Doing so means integrating cloud into your existing IT environment, including ITSM solutions like ServiceNow — as well as a variety of tools and services — and cloud portfolio management solutions like RightScale, which acts as a hub to orchestrate and operate cloud workloads by providing API access in and out to cloud services as well as to your IT ecosystem.
In the Operate in the Cloud with ServiceNow, RightScale and More webinar we’ll cover common scenarios for cloud orchestration:
Enabling self-service operations for your internal cloud consumers.
Using Cloud Application Templates (CATs) to orchestrate cloud workloads.
Offering multi-cloud access through ITSM solutions like ServiceNow.
Orchestrating complex cloud applications leveraging third-party services.
Automating operations for cloud applications.
Cloud Trends for 2017 and Actions You Can Take NowRightScale
Enterprises have moved many workloads to cloud and the pace is only accelerating. As your cloud footprint grows, your focus areas will need to expand. In 2017, enterprises will be expanding cloud governance and security, accelerating development with containers, evaluating additional cloud services, and optimizing cloud use.
RightScale Webinar - 2015 State of the Cloud Report RightScale
The 2015 State of the Cloud Survey includes insights based on the responses of more than 900 IT professionals to give you a comprehensive picture of cloud adoption trends. The survey results provide the hard data you need to benchmark your organization against others of similar size, develop your 2015 cloud strategy and goals, and mobilize your internal stakeholders for cloud initiatives.
Join our State of the Cloud webinar for a review of the key findings, including:
-Trends in public, private, and hybrid cloud adoption
-How many workloads and which types are migrating to cloud
-How central IT is taking the reins by brokering cloud services
-Adoption of the most popular DevOps tools, including Docker, Chef, and Puppet
RightScale Webinar: Benchmark your Cloud Adoption: 2014 State of the Cloud Re...RightScale
We surveyed over 1000 IT executives, technology professionals, and business leaders to bring you the market survey that Forbes, GigaOm, and FierceCIO are all talking about. In this webinar we take a deep dive into the latest trends in cloud adoption.
Benchmark your progress against other organizations and gain insights into the challenges and benefits they are experiencing at their respective stages of adoption. This webinar includes hard data and key findings that can help you:
1. Define or refine your cloud strategy
2. Develop your cloud business case
3. Understand what to expect at your stages of cloud adoption
4. Benchmark your progress against other companies
This report finds that companies continue to look to the public cloud for more and more of their IT workload. Nearly 8 of 10 surveyed stated they intend on operating a hybrid cloud. The top concern with this rapid progression to multiple clouds is the ability to manage IT and cloud costs. However, most of those surveyed admitted they don’t do a good job of tracking or managing costs.
Industry Insights & Cloud Skeptics - How Enterprises Use The Cloud And What S...Alexander Miller
This presentation offers a look into the current state of cloud infrastructure usage among enterprise organizations. Additionally, we explore current obstacles facing cloud adoption and ways in which these obstacles can be overcome.
This presentation was originally presented at the CloudDevelop Conference in Columbus, OH on August 26th, 2016.
Building SharePoint 2016 Hybrid the right wayBrian Culver
Let’s build a SharePoint 2016 Hybrid farm following best practices on Azure in real time. During the build process we will discuss how the new features in 2016 affect the farm architecture and what new features need to be configured. We will also configure the farm to enable a hybrid farm with Office365. Following the session, the attendees will receive all scripts used during the demos.
Attendee Takeaways:
1. Tips and shortcuts to how to build a SharePoint 2016 farm.
2. Learn about many of the new SharePoint 2016 features.
3. Learn how to enable hybrid scenarios between On-premise SharePoint 2016 and Office 365.
Presented at Houston TechFest 2016
How do organizations in Europe view their cloud investments? Are they realizing the true potential of cloud to drive innovation at scale? Learn these answers and other findings in this brief.
Accenture Finds that Vast Majority of Companies are Embracing the Journey to the Cloud but Alignment to Business Strategy Lags
Accenture’s “Cloud in the Boardroom” study found that although there’s a significant uptick in cloud adoption at the enterprise level, companies are missing the full benefit of their cloud adoptions by not factoring their IT implementations into their overall business strategy.
Accenture conducted an online survey, fielded between January and February of 2016, of 1,879 C-level executives of companies across 15 industries in 13 countries. Some key findings include:
- More than 95 percent of respondents have a five-year cloud strategy already in place, however only 38 percent have aligned these plans with overarching business goals.
- Four of five executives reported that less than half of their business functions are currently operated in public cloud, but noted increasing intent on moving more of their operations to the cloud in the coming years.
- 89 percent of respondents agree that implementing cloud strategies is a competitive advantage which allows their companies to leverage innovation through agility.
- While half of respondents cite security as their biggest concern with the public model, more than 80 percent believe public cloud security is more robust and transparent than what they’re able to provide in-house.
“Our research confirms that enterprise clients are overwhelmingly recognizing the value of a Cloud First agenda—leveraging the cloud to bring applications, infrastructure and business processes together and be delivered as-a-Service—as a driver of digital innovation, and they are upfront about the guidance they need in order to move even faster on their journey to the cloud,” said Jack Sepple, senior managing director, Accenture Cloud and Accenture Operations group technology officer. “By taking steps to align their cloud and business strategies and to involve IT more directly in cloud decision-making, companies will be better positioned on their journey to the cloud as the as-a-Service economy matures.”
5 reasons why moving to the cloud is a good ideaDatasharp UK
More cloud services get launched every week, businesses have never had so many to choose from. You’ve heard a lot about the benefits of the cloud, but do you know why or how it can help your business?
Enterprise Development Trends 2016 - Cloud, Container and Microservices Insig...Lightbend
In the past, infrastructure was left to operations teams. Today, it’s JVM developers themselves being brought into the DevOps tent based on the new characteristics of the modern enterprise application, as well as major innovations in the infrastructure running it. Lightbend surveyed 2,151 global respondents working on the JVM to discover:
Correlations between development trends and IT infrastructure trends
How organizations at the forefront of digital transformation are modernizing their applications
Real production usage break-downs of today’s most buzzed about emerging technologies
The survey gathered responses from a diverse range of companies, with 20 percent of respondents hailing from companies with more than 5,000 employees (large organizations), 28 percent from companies with 200-5,000 employees (medium sized organizations) and 52 percent from companies with fewer than 200 employees.
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.
Introduction, Product Demo & Roadmap and Industry AnalystRightScale
RightScale User Conference NYC 2011 -
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RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
1.
2. • Significant growth in hybrid cloud adoption
• Companies use six clouds on average – 3 public, 3 private
• More enterprise workloads shift to cloud; faster growth in private cloud
• Enterprises gain alignment on role of central IT in cloud
• Security is no longer top cloud challenge
• Cloud cost management challenge grows, but optimization efforts lag
• Docker spreads like wildfire, especially in the enterprise
• Public cloud reaches 89% overall penetration
• AWS increases penetration in enterprise, but flat overall
• Azure increases both IaaS & PaaS adoption, especially in SMB
• Private cloud adoption goes up across all providers
• VMware sees largest gains in enterprise
• OpenStack and CloudStack gain most among SMBs
Key Highlights
3. • 69,023 people from the RightScale database were emailed the
survey
• 1060 responses
• 433 (42%) are 1000+ employees (Enterprises)
• 3.07% margin of error
• Respondents are not just RightScale users
• 17% are RightScale users
Methodology
4. 42%
25%
33%
Respondents by Company Size
1060 respondents
Company Size
1001+
employees
101-1000
employees
1-100
employees
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
5. 25%
24%
27%
7%
6%
4%
4%
3%
Respondents by Industry
1060 respondents
Industry
Software!
Tech!
Services!
Financial Services!
Other!
Media & Publishing!
Education!
Business Services!
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Hardware!
7. 55%
11%
34%
Role of Respondents
1060 respondents
Role of Respondents
Dev!
Business!
IT/Ops!
26%
24%
13%
16%
10%
11%
Level of Respondents
1060 respondents
Architect!
Dir/Mgr!
Exec!
IT/Ops!
Dev/QA!
Other!
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
8. 44%
40%
16%
Role of Cloud Architect Emerges
Role of Cloud Architect Emerges
IT Architect!
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Cloud
Architect!
Development!
Architect!
9. Cloud Maturity
9%
11%
26%
25%
29%
Cloud Maturity of Respondents
Cloud!
Watchers!
Cloud!
Beginners!
Cloud!
Explorers!
Cloud!
Focused!
No!
Plans!
Planning
First project
Apps running
Heavy use
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
10. A Quarter of Enterprises and A Third of SMBs
are “Cloud Focused”
11%
6%
13%
9%
26%
26%
19%
34%
32%
25%
SMB
Enterprises
Cloud Maturity by Company Size
No plans
Cloud Watchers
Cloud Beginners
Cloud Explorers
Cloud Focused
1000+ employees
<1000 employees
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
11. Enterprises Increase Cloud Maturity in 2016
3%
6%
14%
9%
27%
26%
38%
34%
18%
25%
2015
2016
Enterprise Cloud Maturity 2016 vs. 2015
No plans
Cloud Watchers
Cloud Beginners
Cloud Explorers
Cloud Focused
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
13. 82% of Enterprises Still Want Multi-Cloud
Single private!
6%!
Single public!
9%!
No plans!
3%!
Multiple private!
11%!
Multiple public!
16%!
Hybrid cloud!
55%!
Enterprise Cloud Strategy
1000+ employees
Multi-Cloud
82%
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
14. Multi-Cloud Strategy 2016 vs. 2015
3%
3%
5%
6%
10%
9%
13%
16%
14%
11%
55%
55%
2015
2016
Enterprise Multi-Cloud Strategy 2016 vs. 2015
No plans
Single private
Single public
Multiple public
Multiple private
Hybrid cloud
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
16. 95% of Respondents Are Using Cloud
(Running Apps or Experimenting)
Public Cloud!
Only!
Private Cloud!
Only!
95% of Respondents Are Using Cloud
71%! 6%!18%!
Hybrid!
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Private = 77%!Public = 89%!
17. 88%
63%
58%
93%
89%
77%
71%
95%
Public Cloud! Private Cloud! Hybrid Cloud! Any Cloud!
Respondents Adopting Cloud 2016 vs. 2015
2015
2016
Private/Hybrid Adoption up YoY
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
18. # of Clouds Used
Public Clouds
All respondents
Private Clouds
All respondents
Running applications
1.5
1.7
Experimenting
1.5
1.3
Total
3.0
3.0
Average # of Clouds Used
19. 29%
27%
23%
10%
10%
Top Priority for Enterprise Central IT
Top Priority for Enterprise Central IT is Hybrid
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Leveraging !
hybrid cloud!
Building a !
private cloud!
Using a hosted
private cloud!
Using !
public cloud!
Public and private are
equal priority!
22. 12%
13%
32%
28%
16%
14%
27%
28%
13%
17%
2015
2016
Number of VMs Enterprises are Running
in Public Cloud
None
1-50 VMs
51-100 VMs
100-1000 VMs
1000+ VMs
Growth in VMs Running in Public Cloud –
Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
23. 18%
14%
18%
16%
11%
13%
31%
26%
22%
31%
2015
2016
Number of VMs Enterprises are Running
in Private Cloud
None
1-50 VMs
51-100 VMs
100-1000 VMs
1000+ VMs
Growth in VMs Running in Private Cloud –
Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
24. 7%
4%
13%
11%
10%
11%
28%
26%
42%
48%
2015
2016
Number of VMs Enterprises are Running
in Virtualized Environments
None
1-50 VMs
51-100 VMs
100-1000 VMs
1000+ VMs
Growth in VMs Running in Virtualized –
Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
25. 13%
22%
17%
31%
Public Cloud! Private Cloud!
Enterprise Respondents
with 1000+ VMs in Cloud
2015
2016
Enterprises with 1000+ VMs in Cloud YoY
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
29. BUs and Central IT Get Aligned
24%
29%
42%
44%
44%
42%
42%
47%
30%
48%
49%
49%
51%
52%
55%
55%
Pay for cloud services
Manage all cloud deployments
Broker cloud services
Set policies for cloud use
Select private clouds
Build private cloud
Select public clouds
Decide/advise on which apps go to cloud
Works in Central IT
Works in Business Unit
Enterprise Views of Role of IT in Cloud
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
30. BUs Give Central IT Larger Role
25%
39%
34%
40%
47%
31%
35%
44%
24%
29%
42%
42%
42%
44%
44%
47%
Pay for cloud services
Manage all cloud deployments
Select public clouds
Broker cloud services
Build private cloud
Set policies for cloud use
Select private clouds
Decide/advise on which apps go to cloud
2016
2015
Enterprise BU Views of Role of Central IT
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
31. 30%
34%
35%
37%
43%
46%
52%
58%
38%
38%
39%
43%
45%
48%
56%
63%
Approval policies for cloud
Cost policies for cloud
Availability or disaster recovery policies for cloud
Portfolio of clouds that can be used
Which applications should go to cloud
Timeline for implementing a cloud strategy
Security policies for cloud
Benefit or value the company wants to achieve
Enterprises with Key Areas of Cloud Governance Defined
2016
2015
Progress on Cloud Governance YoY
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
33. 39%
41%
38%
40%
40%
40%
48%
51%
57%
57%
37%
38%
39%
39%
39%
41%
52%
52%
58%
62%
Cost savings
IT staff efficiency
Move CapEx to OpEx
Geographic reach
Higher performance
Business continuity
Faster time-to-market
Higher availability
Greater scalability
Faster access to infrastructure
Cloud Benefits 2016 vs. 2015
% of Respondents Reporting These Benefits
2016
2015
Cloud Benefits in 2016
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
34. 46%
52%
48%
57%
52%
62%
Faster speed-to-market
Faster access to infrastructure
Respondents that Gain Speed Benefits
from Cloud
2014
2015
2016
Cloud Increasingly Means Speed
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
35. 0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Cloud Beginners
Cloud Explorers
Cloud Focused
Benefits Grow with Cloud Maturity
% of Respondents Reporting These Benefits
Cost savings
Geographic reach
Higher performance
Business continuity
IT staff efficiency
CapEx to OpEx
Higher availability
Faster time-to-market
Greater scalability
Faster access to infrastructure
Benefits Grow with Cloud Maturity
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
36. 22%
24%
20%
20%
23%
17%
25%
26%
30%
32%
21%
22%
24%
25%
25%
27%
27%
31%
36%
37%
Move CapEx to OpEx
IT staff efficiency
Higher performance
Geographic reach
Cost savings
Business continuity
Faster time-to-market
Higher availability
Greater scalability
Faster access to infrastructure
Cloud Benefits for Cloud Beginners 2016 vs. 2015
2016
2015
Cloud Beginners See More Benefits in 2016
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
39. 47%
2014
Central IT Concerns About Security Decline
41%
2015
Enterprise Central IT Rating Cloud Security
as Significant Challenge
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
37%
2016
40. 0%
20%
40%
60%
Cloud Beginners
Cloud Explorers
Cloud Focused
Challenges Decrease with Cloud Maturity
% of Respondents Reporting These As Significant Challenges
Lack of resources/expertise
Security
Compliance
Managing multiple cloud services
Governance/control
Building a private cloud
Managing costs
Performance
Challenges Decrease with Cloud Maturity
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
41. Place
Cloud Beginners
Cloud Explorers
Cloud Focused
#1
Lack of resources/
expertise (38%)
Lack of resources/
expertise (34%) é 3
Lack of resources/
expertise (26%) é 5
#2
Security (35%)
Compliance (32%)
Building a private cloud
(19%)
#3
Compliance (34%)
Managing costs (30%)
Managing costs (18%)
#4
Managing multiple cloud
services (30%)
Security (28%) ê 2
Managing multiple cloud
services (18%)
#5
Governance/Control (29%)
Managing multiple cloud
services (26%)
Security (17%) ê 4
Top 5 Challenges Change with Maturity
Top 5 Challenges Change with Cloud Maturity!
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
42. • Enterprises - Security is #2
• SMB – Security is #3
• Central IT – Security is #2
• Business Units – Security is #4
• Security Pros- Security is #2
• Cloud Focused - Security is #5
• Cloud Explorers - Security is #4
• Cloud Beginners - Security is #2
• Cloud Watchers (in planning stages) - Security is #1
Security is #1 Issue Only If Cloud Experience Is Low
44. 18%
21%
24%
26%
2013! 2014! 2015! 2016!
Respondents that Say Managing Cloud Costs
is a Significant Challenge
Challenge of Managing Costs is Growing
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
45. 3%
18%
17%
18%
21%
36%
29%
28%
28%
45%
4%
14%
22%
24%
25%
28%
31%
33%
34%
45%
Use Google Preemptible VMs
Use AWS Spot Instances
Move workloads to cheaper cloud/region
Select cloud or region based on cost
Track AWS Ris to make sure they are used
Purchasing AWS Ris
Look for storage volumes not in active use
Shutdown workloads during certain hours
Automate shutdown of temporary workloads
Monitor utilization and rightsize instances
How Companies are Optimizing Cloud Costs
Enterprise
SMB
Few Companies are Optimizing Cloud Costs
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
46. 3%
17%
21%
22%
25%
33%
32%
33%
33%
49%
5%
15%
18%
20%
24%
36%
29%
29%
28%
42%
Use Google Preemptible VMs
Use AWS Spot Instances
Move workloads to cheaper cloud/region
Select cloud or region based on cost
Track AWS Ris to make sure they are used
Purchasing AWS Ris
Look for storage volumes not in active use
Shutdown workloads during certain hours
Automate shutdown of temporary workloads
Monitor utilization and rightsize instances
How Companies are Optimizing Cloud Costs
Cost is challenge
Cost not a challenge
People that See Cost as Challenge are
Optimizing LESS
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
48. 17%
29%
30%
29%
34%
38%
43%
35%
33%
39%
40%
44%
44%
46%
47%
57%
Enabling IT to broker multiple cloud services
Expanding private clouds we use
Expanding use of containers
Implementing a cloud first strategy
Implementing CI/CD in the cloud
Expanding public clouds we use
Optimizing existing cloud use (cost savings)
Moving more workloads to cloud
Cloud Initiatives in 2016
Enterprise
SMB
2016 Cloud Initiatives
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
49. Place
Cloud Beginners
Cloud Explorers
Cloud Focused
#1
Move more workloads to
cloud (43%)
Move more workloads to
cloud (63%)
Optimizing existing cloud
use/cost savings (62%)
#2
Implement a cloud first
strategy (40%)
Optimizing existing cloud
use/cost savings (53%)
CI/CD in the cloud (52%)
#3
Expand public clouds we
use (37%)
Expand public clouds we
use (51%)
Expand public clouds we
use (50%)
#4
Expand private clouds we
use (36%)
CI/CD in the cloud (46%)
Expand use of containers
(48%)
#5
Optimizing existing cloud
use/cost savings (34%)
Expand use of containers
(41%)
Move more workloads to
cloud (44%)
2016 Initiatives Depend on Cloud Maturity
Top 2016 Initiatives Depend on Cloud Maturity!
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
51. Strong Growth in DevOps Adoption in 2016
66%
74%
19%
16%
15%
10%
2015
2016
DevOps Adoption Up in 2016
Adopting DevOps
Not adopting
Don't Know
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
52. Enterprises Adopt DevOps at Even Higher Rate
70%
81%
19%
12%
11%
7%
SMB
Enterprise
Enterprise vs. SMB DevOps Adoption
Adopting DevOps
Not adopting
Don't Know
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
53. 21%
31%
29%
12%
7%
Enterprise Adoption of DevOps
Enterprise Adoption of DevOps is Widespread
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Adopting DevOps
company-wide!
Adopting DevOps for
projects or teams!
Not adopting
DevOps!
Adopting DevOps!
for BUs or divisions!
Don’t know!
63. 5%
5%
8%
5%
9%
12%
57%
4%
5%
6%
7%
7%
7%
13%
17%
57%
Oracle Cloud (IaaS)
DigitalOcean
Google IaaS
IBM SoftLayer
Google App Engine (PaaS)
VMware vCloud Air
Azure PaaS
Azure IaaS
AWS
Public Cloud Adoption 2016 vs. 2015
% of Respondents Running Applications
2016
2015
Public Cloud Adoption YoY – All Respondents
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Not asked in 2015
Not asked in 2015
66. 7%
9%
6%
10%
15%
19%
50%
2%
6%
6%
6%
7%
11%
17%
23%
56%
DigitalOcean
Google IaaS
Oracle Cloud (IaaS)
Google App Engine (PaaS)
IBM SoftLayer
VMware vCloud Air
Azure PaaS
Azure IaaS
AWS
Enterprise Public Cloud Adoption 2016 vs. 2015
% of Respondents Running Applications
2016
2015
Public Cloud Adoption YoY – Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Not asked in 2015
Not asked in 2015
68. 3%
5%
6%
7%
11%
15%
58%
9%
12%
8%
9%
19%
25%
17%
6%
8%
7%
5%
14%
14%
9%
Oracle Cloud (IaaS)
VMware vCloud Air
IBM SoftLayer
DigitalOcean
Google (IaaS+PaaS)
Azure (IaaS+PaaS)
AWS
SMB Public Cloud Adoption
% of Respondents Running Applications
Running apps
Experimenting
Plan to use
Public Cloud Adoption – SMB
Google and Azure IaaS + PaaS Combined
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
69. 3%
5%
4%
8%
6%
9%
61%
3%
5%
6%
6%
7%
7%
10%
13%
58%
Oracle Cloud
VMware vCloud Air
Google IaaS
IBM SoftLayer
DigitalOcean
Google App Engine
Azure PaaS
Azure IaaS
AWS
SMB Public Cloud Adoption 2016 vs. 2015
% of Respondents Running Applications
2016
2015
Public Cloud Adoption YoY – SMB
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Not asked in 2015
Not asked in 2015
70. Place
Enterprise (1000+ employees)
SMB (Under 1000 employees)
#1
AWS
AWS
#2
Azure IaaS
Azure IaaS é 1
#3
Azure PaaS
Azure PaaS é 2
#4
VMware vCloud Air é 1
Google App Engine
#5
IBM SoftLayer é 3
DigitalOcean
#6
Google App Engine (PaaS)
IBM SoftLayer é 1
#7
Oracle Cloud (IaaS)
Google IaaS ê 1
#8
Google IaaS ê 1
VMware vCloud Air
#9
DigitalOcean
Oracle Cloud (IaaS)
Top Public Clouds – Enterprise vs. SMB
Top Public Clouds Used!
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
73. 7%
8%
10%
13%
13%
33%
9%
13%
13%
15%
19%
19%
44%
Microsoft Azure Pack
CloudStack
Microsoft System Center
Bare-Metal Cloud
VMware vCloud Suite
OpenStack
VMware vSphere/vCenter
Private Cloud Adoption 2016 vs. 2015
% of Respondents Running Applications
2016
2015
Private Cloud Adoption YoY – All Respondents
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Not asked in 2015
77. 4%
6%
6%
6%
10%
23%
6%
7%
12%
13%
13%
17%
32%
Microsoft Azure Pack
Microsoft System Center
VMware vCloud Suite
CloudStack
Bare-Metal Cloud
OpenStack
VMware vSphere/vCenter
SMB Private Cloud Adoption 2016 vs. 2015
% of Respondents Running Applications
2016
2015
Private Cloud Adoption YoY – SMB
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
Not asked in 2015
78. Place
Enterprise (1000+ employees)
SMB (Under 1000 employees)
#1
VMware vSphere/vCenter
VMware vSphere/vCenter
#2
VMware vCloud Suite
OpenStack
#3
Microsoft System Center
Bare-Metal Cloud
#4
OpenStack
CloudStack é 1
#5
Bare-Metal Cloud
VMware vCloud Suite ê 1
#6
Microsoft Azure Pack
Microsoft System Center ê 3
#7
CloudStack ê 2
Microsoft Azure Pack ê 1
Top Private Clouds – Enterprise vs. SMB
Top Private Clouds Used!
Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
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