- Many large companies have experienced website crashes due to surges in traffic, forcing them to reevaluate their web infrastructure strategies. The introduction of public cloud offers a new way for IT teams to manage web infrastructure. - A study of 50 IT leaders found the biggest challenges were difficulty simulating production environments and scaling to meet traffic demands. Over half said they are evaluating cloud solutions in the next 12 months. - The top two cloud providers being evaluated are AWS and Azure. A cloud solution may help address budgets constraints and increasing business demands on web infrastructure.

1. Moving Web Infrastructure To The Cloud
A short Softchoice study on how IT leaders approach their web infrastructure

2. Delivering great customer experience through improved infrastructures
Some of the largest companies in North America – Target, Bank of America and Disney –
have experienced surges in website traffic causing their sites to crash, which forced them
to re-evaluate their web infrastructure strategy.
The introduction of public cloud offers a new way for IT leaders to plan and manage their
web infrastructures to ensure they meet the demands from the business and deliver consistent customer
experiences. The Softchoice team wanted to find out how IT teams currently manage their web
infrastructures and what their plans are.

3. Study Methodology
We surveyed 50 IT leaders to determine the biggest challenges
IT leaders face around their web infrastructures, how IT teams are
managing them and their future plans for a cloud solution.

4. What are your biggest challenges around web infrastructure?
Did you know?
Pay only for what
you use, no capital
investments required.
17%
37%
10%
15%
21%
Difficulty simulating
production for dev
and test procedures
Outgrowing existing
web infrastructure
Scaling to meet
traffic demands
Long turn
around times
Lack of budget

5. Who manages your web infrastructure?
Other
Did you know?
Leveraging managed services helps you focus resources
on key revenue generating activities.
19% 29% 4% 8% 21%
19%
App
Development Team
Dedicated
Admin
No Dedicated
Role
E-Commerce Marketing

6. What is the platform you develop with?
18%
1%
26%
12%
6%
37%
Java
Node.js
Other
PHP
.NET
Python
Did you know?
Leveraging public cloud
providers’ development
libraries speeds up
time-to-market.

7. What is your content management system?
8%
9%
24%
38%
18%
3%
DotNetNuke
Drupal
Wordpress
SharePoint
None
Other
Did you know?
You can use patterns
to deploy a complete
technology stack on
your cloud provider
in one action.

8. When planning your web infrastructure
what is your biggest unknown?
11% 6%
36%
6%
10%
31%
Global Content Delivery
Other
Seasonal Spikes
Potential Volume
Sizing Demand
Streaming Media
Did you know?
Flexibility in public
cloud means that
your infrastructure
grows as you do.

9. Do you have an e-commerce component to your business?
2% 59% 6% 33%
About to launch No Yes
We are
planning one
Did you know?
Regardless of future
plans, public cloud
provides a cost
effective platform for
your web infrastructure.

10. What is the biggest shift impacting your web infrastructure?
Top Responses
Mobility Growth Relevance Standardization
Application
Development
Did you know?
Cloud solutions provide insight on how your customers
and staff are using your web infrastructure.

11. Which public cloud providers are you planning to evaluate?
14%
17%
6%
3%
7%
Did you know?
Selecting the right cloud platform is often
complicated, however AWS and Azure
top the list of evaluated platforms.

12. •
As business demands increase and budgets shrink, a cloud solution for
web infrastructure may be something to consider
•
Over 50% of respondents said they are evaluating a cloud solution
over the next 12 months
But you shouldn’t just jump right in…
Key Findings

13. How Softchoice helps you along your journey
“I’ve just started to research
solutions and begin my plan”
Web Infrastructure Consultation
A personalized consultation
to review business plans and
provide recommendations.
Keystone Managed Services and the
MySoftchoice Cloud Services Dashboard
Designed to supplement the skills of
your team to allow you the flexibility to
respond to rapidly changing business needs.
Web Accelerator for AWS
Accelerates your move to the cloud and
provides readiness to deploy resources
associated with both public and internal
facing web workloads.
“I’ve reviewed providers and want to
accelerate my move to the cloud”
“My adoption of cloud
infrastructure is growing quickly”

14. Contact us at
publiccloud@softchoice.com
Or visit
www.softchoicecloud.com