What does the present state and future of cloud computing look like? What do IT pros have to say when it comes to the management, security, and costs around cloud? In this infographic, we’ve pulled together a snapshot of key data points from InformationWeek and Interop ITX’s State of the Cloud 2017 report.

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As the use of public cloud becomes a
given, IT leaders must navigate the
transition and advocate for management
tools or architectures that allow them
to realize the benefits they seek.
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)
nearly doubled,
increasing from
30% to 57%.
The use of virtualization
or private cloud has
dropped nearly 25%,
from 52% to 40%
of respondents.
of respondents
predict that
they will get
half or more of
IT services from
the cloud.
2016 burst the cloud-burst bubble on
building hybrid cloud environments.
The Death of “Virtualization=Cloud”
Increased Use in Public Cloud Services
“Unauthorized
access to or leak
of our proprietary
information”
“Unauthorized
access to or leak
of our customers’
information”
Top Three Concerns with Cloud Computing
New Technology and Trends in 2016
IT leaders say their organizations are shifting from private
cloud to public alternatives like infrastructure-as-a-service.
PRIVATE CLOUD IaaS
“Security
defects in the
technology
itself”
57% 39% 35%
SCALABILITY
PERFORMANCE
The Future of Hybrid Cloud
the Cloud
STATE
The move
away from
virtualization and
“private cloud” toward
public cloud is driven primarily
by three criteria:
39%
OF
52%
39% 38%
23%
48%
38%
Amazon Web
Services (AWS)
Google’s
Cloud
Microsoft
Azure
of respondents said that
security is the biggest
challenge their organization
has encountered in utilizing
private/hybrid cloud.
51%
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Although only 7%of respondents said
they were using containers in production,
40%are
considering, testing,
or using them in
development.
The rise of so-called
“serverless”
computing is one of the
most significant recent
topics in cloud.
to 59%.
76%
The percentage of respondents
running half or more of their
workloads in the private cloud
declined from
Source: UBM State of the Cloud Computing survey of 307 technology professionals at organizations that use or plan to use cloud computing, October 2016.
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