The document summarizes the findings of a 2016 cloud study that interviewed 211 IT and business decision makers from Canadian organizations about their cloud adoption. It found that 59% have adopted cloud, but 48% lack a formal cloud security policy. While security remains a top concern, it is no longer seen as a barrier to cloud. Only 23% feel they are doing enough on cloud security. Both cloud workloads and budgets are expected to increase in the next 1-3 years. Experienced cloud users emphasize the importance of planning, assessment and having a formal roadmap for successful cloud migration.

1. Moving up
the Value Chain
What we can Learn
from Experienced
Cloud Users
results of the 2016
scalar cloud study

2. We interviewed 211 senior level IT and
business decision makers from Canadian
headquartered organizations ranging in
size from 50 to 500+ employees.

3. We wanted to learn:
Here were the findings...
¡ How prepared are Canadian organizations to
migrate their business workloads to the cloud?
¡ What are the top concerns regarding moving
workloads to the cloud?
¡ How is cloud adoption changing the role of IT?

4. 59%of Canadian organizations
have adopted cloud as an
applications or workload
delivery model
CLOUD IS
NOW MAINSTREAM

5. 48%have no formal cloud
security policy in place
HOWEVER...

6. Security is no longer viewed
as a barrier to cloud, but still
remains the primary concern
#1

7. 23%of respondents believe their
organizations are doing
enough when it comes
to cloud security
ONLY

8. Both workloads and IT budgets for
the cloud are expected to increase
over the next 12 to 36 months

9. What can you learn from
Experienced cloud users?

10. Experience shows that planning, assessment, and design steps
are most critical to a successful transition to cloud
of Experienced cloud users agree that a formal
roadmap is required when migrating workloads
100%

11. Experienced cloud users understand the complexity
of cloud transformation. They are
more likely to look to external expertise to assist
with cloud adoption than a Novice user
48%

12. Cloud benefits and business value
become progressively more sophisticated
as cloud experience level increases

13. Experienced cloud users are significantly
more likely to view IT as a driver of
strategy and innovation versus IT as
a support function

14. What are the top cloud initiatives for
2017?

15. Adoption of IT security services

16. Transitioning more traditionally
delivered applications to a public cloud
delivery model

17. Supporting production workloads
with more investment in pubic cloud
infrastructure solutions

18. Implementation of new applications
via public cloud

19. Supporting production workloads with
private on-prem cloud solutions

20. Here are our final recommendations...

21. ¡ Create strategic frameworks
¡ Adopt a continuous optimization
approach in line with the Cloud
Experience Model or similar
framework
¡ View cloud security and cloud
adoption as non-severable
concepts
¡ Engage cloud-specific expertise
¡ Be agile and adaptive

22. To learn more about how Experienced
cloud users are making the transition to cloud,
or with help for your roadmap, visit
scalar.ca/cloud-study-2016
to download the full report