The 2016 State of Cloud IT Report by BetterCloud
The Cloud Changes Everything
Work as we know it is transforming. Today, all businesses are technology enabled, regardless of size, industry, or location. But merely using technology no longer guarantees you remain competitive. As digital natives flood the global workforce, businesses are met with a decision: resist new norms or provide the latest technology to their employees.
We are in the midst of a technological shift not seen since the launch of Microsoft Office and the invention of the Internet. The world of IT is at a tipping point, and at the center are IT professionals experiencing once-in-a-career shifts in their roles and responsibilities. For years, IT has been mischaracterized as solely an internal support team; if something breaks, IT is there with the fix. In 2016, IT professionals are beginning to offload their routine work to cloud software and service providers, giving them more time to focus on strategic work.
The skills required to be a successful IT professional in the modern, cloud-first workplace are far different than they once were. Cloud IT is coming of age, and it’s going to affect every organization and IT professional in the world, much faster than you think.
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.
enterprise cloud computing adoption accelerated in 2016 and will do so again in 2017. are you ahead of your competitors or lagging behind the average enterprise? Infrastructure and operations (I&o) leaders must answer this question to chart their companies’ cloud futures. this report gathers important adoption metrics for public, private, and hybrid cloud and explores enterprise cloud priorities and policies to help you benchmark your progress against the broader market. use these benchmarks to inform your cloud strategic plan.
this is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and revises it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy. We’re updating it now to include new data from Forrester’s Business technographics surveys.
While use of the cloud today is generally associated with the ability to reduce costs and improve efficiency, widespread adoption of this technology is projected to have a transformative effect on all businesses of all sizes.
The 2016 State of Cloud IT Report by BetterCloud
The Cloud Changes Everything
Work as we know it is transforming. Today, all businesses are technology enabled, regardless of size, industry, or location. But merely using technology no longer guarantees you remain competitive. As digital natives flood the global workforce, businesses are met with a decision: resist new norms or provide the latest technology to their employees.
We are in the midst of a technological shift not seen since the launch of Microsoft Office and the invention of the Internet. The world of IT is at a tipping point, and at the center are IT professionals experiencing once-in-a-career shifts in their roles and responsibilities. For years, IT has been mischaracterized as solely an internal support team; if something breaks, IT is there with the fix. In 2016, IT professionals are beginning to offload their routine work to cloud software and service providers, giving them more time to focus on strategic work.
The skills required to be a successful IT professional in the modern, cloud-first workplace are far different than they once were. Cloud IT is coming of age, and it’s going to affect every organization and IT professional in the world, much faster than you think.
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.
enterprise cloud computing adoption accelerated in 2016 and will do so again in 2017. are you ahead of your competitors or lagging behind the average enterprise? Infrastructure and operations (I&o) leaders must answer this question to chart their companies’ cloud futures. this report gathers important adoption metrics for public, private, and hybrid cloud and explores enterprise cloud priorities and policies to help you benchmark your progress against the broader market. use these benchmarks to inform your cloud strategic plan.
this is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and revises it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy. We’re updating it now to include new data from Forrester’s Business technographics surveys.
While use of the cloud today is generally associated with the ability to reduce costs and improve efficiency, widespread adoption of this technology is projected to have a transformative effect on all businesses of all sizes.
Cloud Usage in Business Today and Tomorrowrftclouds
Reach for the Clouds, Inc. was formed to organizations migrate to the cloud with One Solution, One platform, one with your customer.
http://bit.ly/1wqmNX3
Organizations have been putting the cloud to use for years, but recently the trickle of workloads being moved from on-premises to public cloud environments has grown into a tidal wave.
But just what public cloud infrastructure strategies are being used, in terms of the number of providers with which they partner, and do they see these services simply augmenting existing on-premises environments or as a means of revolutionizing them?
Read this ESG research brief to get the answer to these questions and more.
DataOps: An Agile Method for Data-Driven OrganizationsEllen Friedman
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Booz Allen’s data lake approach enables agencies to embed security controls within each individual piece of data to reinforce existing layers of security and dramatically reduce risk. Government agencies – including military and intelligence agencies – are using this proven security approach to secure data and fully capitalize on the promise of big data and the cloud.
Cloud computing continues to transform the way organization are doing business, proving to be a transformative innovation for many enterprises. Considering how far the cloud has come in recent years spurs questions of what the future will look like and what types of changes we can expect.
Since announcing its “Cloud First” policy in 2010, the Federal government has correctly identified cloud computing as a way to reduce costs and improve the use of existing assets, and has accordingly prioritized its adoption. It has also taken judicious steps to protect Federal networks from nefarious cyber-attacks and promote the dissemination of best practices for cybersecurity. The Federal government has also embraced mobility as a means to conduct work from any location. But until now, the implementation of these initiatives has been fragmented and lacked coordination across Federal agencies. This paper offers a framework for integrating these programs in a way that enables the Federal government to realize the economic, technological, and mission-effectiveness benefits of cloud services while simultaneously meeting current Federal cybersecurity
requirements. It advocates shifting from a compliance-based cybersecurity paradigm to
one that is risk-based and focusing on how to most effectively secure their implementation of cloud services.
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As organizations leverage cloud or hybrid
solutions across applications like email, identity,
customer, and storage management, it’s time
to re-evaluate how cloud can be leveraged.
North Bridge and Wikibon, announced the results of its sixth annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey, which analyzes trends in cloud computing, adoption, use and challenges on a yearly basis. The study provides the broadest and deepest exploration of cloud in the industry with 53 leading cloud companies participating as collaborators. This year’s survey received 1,351 responses, a record-breaking number, representing a 60/40 balance of user/vendor perspectives spanning senior executives to practitioners across all industry sectors such as Technology, F.I.R.E., Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Media, Professional Services and Transportation.
According to Wikibon’s July 2016 report based on market conditions and recent public cloud revenue results of Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM; public cloud spending is expected to accelerate rapidly, growing from $75B in 2015 to $522B by 2026 at a compound annual growth rate of 19%. Within each public cloud segment continued rapid growth rates are also expected during this period: SaaS (19% CAGR), PaaS (33% CAGR), and IaaS (18% CAGR). Wikibon estimates that by 2026, cloud will account for nearly 50% of spending related to enterprise hardware, software, and outsourcing services.
Cloud Strategy
Based on our survey, while slightly less than 50% of all companies either have a cloud first or cloud only strategy; some form of cloud strategy is pervasive among all with 90% of companies surveyed reporting that they use it in some way.
A new finding this year is the fact that a surprisingly high number, 42%, of companies surveyed derive 50% or more of their business through cloud-based applications. In fact, a whopping 79.9% of the companies surveyed were getting some revenue from the cloud. This speaks to the digital transformation occurring across many industries and how many are looking to not only move more quickly with the cloud but profit from it as well.
Read more: http://www.northbridge.com/2016-future-cloud-computing-survey
The Federal government today is in the midst of a revolution. The revolution is challenging the norms of government by introducing new ways of serving the people. New models for creating services and delivering information; new policies and procedures that are redefining federal acquisition and what it means to be a federal system integrator. This revolution also lacks the physical and tangible artifacts of the past. Its ephemeral nature, global expanse and economic impact all combine in a tidal wave of change. This revolution is called cloud computing.
Cloud Computing is an information technology gold rush. Everything from social media and smart phones to streaming video and additive games come from the cloud. This revolution has also driven many to wonder how they can retool themselves to take advantage of this massive shift. Many in IT see the technology as an opportunity to accelerate their careers but in their attempt to navigate their cloud computing future, the question of what type of training, vendor-neutral or vendor-specific, is right for them
This benchmark is the result of the collaboration between Burstorm and Rice University and uses a high degree of automation. The scope of the first benchmark is seven suppliers across three continents with a total of 96 different instance types. The benchmark was executed every day, for at least 15 days. The results are normalized to a monthly pricing model to establish the price-performance metrics.
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If you are a CIO, CTO, Head of Technology, CEO, CFO or any interest in Cloud Infrastructure you have to see this report, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Nutanix
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Cloud Usage in Business Today and Tomorrowrftclouds
Reach for the Clouds, Inc. was formed to organizations migrate to the cloud with One Solution, One platform, one with your customer.
http://bit.ly/1wqmNX3
Organizations have been putting the cloud to use for years, but recently the trickle of workloads being moved from on-premises to public cloud environments has grown into a tidal wave.
But just what public cloud infrastructure strategies are being used, in terms of the number of providers with which they partner, and do they see these services simply augmenting existing on-premises environments or as a means of revolutionizing them?
Read this ESG research brief to get the answer to these questions and more.
DataOps: An Agile Method for Data-Driven OrganizationsEllen Friedman
DataOps expands DevOps philosophy to include data-heavy roles (data engineering & data science). DataOps uses better cross-functional collaboration for flexibility, fast time to value and an agile workflow for data-intensive applications including machine learning pipelines. (Strata Data San Jose March 2018)
Booz Allen’s data lake approach enables agencies to embed security controls within each individual piece of data to reinforce existing layers of security and dramatically reduce risk. Government agencies – including military and intelligence agencies – are using this proven security approach to secure data and fully capitalize on the promise of big data and the cloud.
Cloud computing continues to transform the way organization are doing business, proving to be a transformative innovation for many enterprises. Considering how far the cloud has come in recent years spurs questions of what the future will look like and what types of changes we can expect.
Since announcing its “Cloud First” policy in 2010, the Federal government has correctly identified cloud computing as a way to reduce costs and improve the use of existing assets, and has accordingly prioritized its adoption. It has also taken judicious steps to protect Federal networks from nefarious cyber-attacks and promote the dissemination of best practices for cybersecurity. The Federal government has also embraced mobility as a means to conduct work from any location. But until now, the implementation of these initiatives has been fragmented and lacked coordination across Federal agencies. This paper offers a framework for integrating these programs in a way that enables the Federal government to realize the economic, technological, and mission-effectiveness benefits of cloud services while simultaneously meeting current Federal cybersecurity
requirements. It advocates shifting from a compliance-based cybersecurity paradigm to
one that is risk-based and focusing on how to most effectively secure their implementation of cloud services.
How You can Leverage Cloud Platforms to Transform Digital ExperienceAlaina Carter
Cloud computing is one of the valuable innovation in the IT industry. It is the best way to turn ideas into functional software. Read more to know how you can leverage cloud platforms to transform the digital experience.
As organizations leverage cloud or hybrid
solutions across applications like email, identity,
customer, and storage management, it’s time
to re-evaluate how cloud can be leveraged.
North Bridge and Wikibon, announced the results of its sixth annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey, which analyzes trends in cloud computing, adoption, use and challenges on a yearly basis. The study provides the broadest and deepest exploration of cloud in the industry with 53 leading cloud companies participating as collaborators. This year’s survey received 1,351 responses, a record-breaking number, representing a 60/40 balance of user/vendor perspectives spanning senior executives to practitioners across all industry sectors such as Technology, F.I.R.E., Government, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Media, Professional Services and Transportation.
According to Wikibon’s July 2016 report based on market conditions and recent public cloud revenue results of Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and IBM; public cloud spending is expected to accelerate rapidly, growing from $75B in 2015 to $522B by 2026 at a compound annual growth rate of 19%. Within each public cloud segment continued rapid growth rates are also expected during this period: SaaS (19% CAGR), PaaS (33% CAGR), and IaaS (18% CAGR). Wikibon estimates that by 2026, cloud will account for nearly 50% of spending related to enterprise hardware, software, and outsourcing services.
Cloud Strategy
Based on our survey, while slightly less than 50% of all companies either have a cloud first or cloud only strategy; some form of cloud strategy is pervasive among all with 90% of companies surveyed reporting that they use it in some way.
A new finding this year is the fact that a surprisingly high number, 42%, of companies surveyed derive 50% or more of their business through cloud-based applications. In fact, a whopping 79.9% of the companies surveyed were getting some revenue from the cloud. This speaks to the digital transformation occurring across many industries and how many are looking to not only move more quickly with the cloud but profit from it as well.
Read more: http://www.northbridge.com/2016-future-cloud-computing-survey
The Federal government today is in the midst of a revolution. The revolution is challenging the norms of government by introducing new ways of serving the people. New models for creating services and delivering information; new policies and procedures that are redefining federal acquisition and what it means to be a federal system integrator. This revolution also lacks the physical and tangible artifacts of the past. Its ephemeral nature, global expanse and economic impact all combine in a tidal wave of change. This revolution is called cloud computing.
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Is Hybrid Cloud becoming the default?
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1. State of the Hybrid Cloud
Research Report
January 2016
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Table of Contents
State of the Hybrid Cloud Research Report
Introduction
Methodology
The World is Moving to Cloud
Drivers and Inhibitors of Workloads in the Public Cloud
The Future is Messy / It Helps to Have a Guide
Advice for Making the Transition to Hybrid Cloud
Summary
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Introduction
In today’s digital world, it seems as though change is the only constant. Organizations continue their
journey to “software-defined” and look for ways to best leverage cloud services in all their flavors.
There are reasons for this change, of course: IT looks to better support the needs of the business
– at the speed of the business. And this means becoming more agile, streamlining operations, and
reducing costs to free up resources that can be repurposed. However, the need to go faster and be
more responsive can lead to IT environments that are more fragmented and disparate - and ultimately
more fragile. This fragmentation complicates one other important responsibility of IT - the efficient
management and protection of the company’s information assets.
And that’s where we come in. At Veritas, we create information management solutions that help IT
organizations better manage and protect their applications and information no matter how complex or
heterogeneous their infrastructure. As much of the data center fragmentation is driven by digitalization
and cloud technologies, we commissioned the State of the Hybrid Cloud Research Report in the fall of
2015 to shed light on how organizations are leveraging on and off-premises clouds today as well as their
plans for the future.
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Over 1,800 global IT decision makers in enterprises with
500 or more employees and at least 75TB of data under
management.
Methodology
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In fact, 38 percent of workloads today
exist in a private cloud with 28 percent
in public clouds. Those numbers are
expected to grow at a rate of 7 percent
and 18 percent respectively over the
next 12 months. Traditional on-premises
workloads today account for 34 percent
of all workloads, but according to
the data, that number is expected to
decrease by 36 percent over the next 12
months.
The World is Moving to Cloud
Today, the combined
percentage of public
and private cloud-based
workloads is 66 percent,
with traditional on-
premises workloads at 34
percent.
MIGRATION PATHS OF
ENTERPRISE WORKLOADS
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A common perception is that less important
workloads will migrate to the cloud at a much
faster rate than critical workloads. The data
suggests otherwise. Top workload types
identified include mission-critical applications
like CRM and ERP. Across the board,
workloads of all types and criticality are
migrating to the public cloud at statistically
similar rates.
Any reticence organizations may have
had about trusting cloud seems to have
dissipated from an operational standpoint.
However, this puts additional pressure on
service providers to ensure high availability
measures are in place to protect against
application failure in addition to disruptions
due to infrastructure downtime.
EVEN CRITICAL
WORKLOADS ARE
MIGRATING TO
PUBLIC CLOUD
Data
warehousing
Backup and
recovery
Big data
processing
Now
24mo. Future
28%
52%
74%
31%
52%
72%
28%
54%
77%
25%
52%
74%
29% 55% 76%
Relational/OLTP
CRM
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However, it’s also clear from the data that
organizations are not going to move entirely
to the cloud. This means that IT departments
will have to continue to manage information
disbursed across a heterogeneous
environment made up of traditional and cloud
technologies. A centralized tool to manage
the high availability and disaster recovery
aspects of such a mixed infrastructure will
become increasingly important.
Over the next 24 months,organizations
look to roughly double the percentage of
workloads in the public cloud across the
board.
MOVING WORKLOADS TO THE PUBLIC CLOUD
It Will be a Hybrid World
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ENTERPRISES ARE BALANCING
MANAGEMENT COMPLEXITIES
ACROSS MULTIPLE CLOUD
INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORMS
However, what’s interesting is that workloads are
not heading to just one vendor’s public/private cloud
infrastructure. Rather the data suggests that even
today roughly 74 percent of enterprises leverage two
or more cloud infrastructure vendors to support their
workload requirements.
While this is not necessarily surprising, it’s further
evidence of how fragmented IT is becoming in this
digital age. For IT, this adds pressure to ensure
information is adequately protected, managed, and
ideally leveraged for decision making across an
increasingly mixed and disparate environment.
For example, it is doubtful that Amazon Web
Services™ will provide the tools necessary to
manage information assets located in Microsoft’s
Azure® cloud or vice versa. This will be IT’s burden
to bear.
23%
74%
use
multiple
cloud
vendors
using
four or
more
vendors
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Globally, cloud migration proceeds at varying rates, with Japan and Brazil reporting roughly 50 percent more
workloads moved to the public cloud than the U.S., Canada, France and Germany. You would expect the U.S.
to be among the leaders when it comes to workloads in the cloud, but the data clearly shows other countries
are further down that path. By industry, manufacturing shows roughly twice as many workloads in the public
cloud as the public sector.
As mentioned above, enterprises are embracing cloud. The Veritas State of Hybrid Cloud Study also explored what
is driving this migration as well as what factors are holding it back.
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Drivers and Inhibitors of Workloads
in the Public Cloud
What is driving organizations to move more workloads
to the public cloud? Cost is a big driver, mentioned by
more than a third of the respondents as being their top
reason.
This is followed by a mix of IT agility measures: The
capability to burst capacity and speed in provisioning
new workloads.
Particularly interesting however, is that while security
remains the number one reason for why organizations
are avoiding the public cloud, it’s also the top driver
of satisfaction with the public cloud - highlighting the
significant advancements in security capabilities public
cloud vendors have made.
As one respondent remarked, “I would have adopted
cloud earlier had we known how secure and safe it
actually was.”
CostsSecurity
of data
Provisioning
Speed
Capability
to burst
capacity
$
Less risky
Easier service level
management
Burst capacity
Control over certain
workloads
Public cloud still a relatively
unproven solution
Don’t want to be locked
into public cloud vendors
24%
19%
17%
11%
14%
8%
7%
Need to keep confidential
data in country/on-site
Security/protection
architectures
Control
Performance
Cost
Legacy investment
Customization
requirements
Currently coordinating
move to the cloud
Fear of the unknown
No perceived need
50%
36%
35%
28%
30%
23%
22%
15%
12%
11%
Need to keep confidential
data in country/on-site
Drivers of high satisfaction
with the cloud
Why respondents are
avoiding the public cloud
Why respondents choose
private over public cloud
DRIVERS & INHIBITORS
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Many organizations continue to push
workloads to private cloud infrastructure
rather than public, driven by certain factors
that keep popping up.
The need to keep confidential data in
country/on-site is at the top of that list
followed by the perception that private
clouds are less risky and service level
management is easier.
The fear of being locked into public cloud
vendors is a commonly assumed explanation
for why organizations choose private over
public cloud infrastructure. However, the
data clearly shows that this is much less a
driver than other factors.
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While organizations are rapidly migrating workloads to the public cloud, the data clearly shows that this is not a
complete migration. A sizeable number of respondents said that certain workloads would always remain on-premises
in either traditional or private cloud infrastructure.
For example, 28 percent say this about backup and recovery, 27 percent for disaster recovery and 26 percent for
archive, data warehousing, and relational or OLTP databases.
The future will be a mix of traditional on-premises, private and public clouds. Exacerbating the heterogeneity is the fact
that 74 percent currently use multiple cloud infrastructure vendors with 23 percent using four or more vendors. Note
that more heavily regulated industries (ex: healthcare or financial) corresponds with a greater number of cloud vendors
in use.
The Future is Messy
It Helps to Have a Guide
Not surprisingly, with such a messy, heterogeneous future, 81 percent of enterprises rely on
service providers for help with implementation as well as ongoing operations. Those who
report “always using service providers” for implementation are twice as likely to say their
cloud system(s) have exceeded their expectations (53 versus 26 percent). A similar result
is reported when using service providers for ongoing support, where 50 percent of those
always using a service provider for ongoing support said their expectations were exceeded
versus just 30 percent for those who never use a service provider.
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Cloud adoption is well underway, and traditional on-premises infrastructure is not going away. Organizations are
looking at hybrid models to take advantage of the cost advantages and increased IT agility that comes from the
cloud while mitigating the risks of security, confidentiality, and loss of control.
Advice for Making the Transition to Hybrid Cloud
Here are four steps we recommend to maximize the agility and minimize the
risks in hybrid cloud environments:
Find and understand the
blind spots fragmented hybrid
cloud architectures create as
information flows through and
across different private and
public cloud environments.
1
Keep complete business
services and applications
healthy and available –
not just their underlying
infrastructure components.
2
Protect, manage, and
govern all of the data that
flows through your complex,
multi-vendor hybrid cloud
environment as a unified
whole.
3
Consistently monitor
and test the health of your
complete hybrid cloud services
and applications.
4
Veritas is ready to help you embrace the agility of hybrid cloud architectures while avoiding the risks. Learn more
about our family of information management solutions and services already trusted by IT organizations worldwide.
For more information visit: https://www.veritas.com/solution/multi-vendor-hybrid-cloud
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Hybrid cloud architectures are the preferred model for enterprises. Workloads are migrating
to a multitude of different cloud vendors with mission-critical workloads moving at a similar
rate as lower-tier workloads. This puts pressure on IT and cloud providers to ensure proper
solutions that help maintain data visibility, management, and control are in place. To help drive
successful outcomes, organizations look to partners to help manage the chaos.
At Veritas, we design solutions to help customers better manage and protect their information
regardless of the scale, complexity, or heterogeneity of their environment. Learn how Veritas
can help you with your hybrid cloud initiatives.
For more information visit: https://www.veritas.com/solution/multi-vendor-hybrid-cloud
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