benefits of cloud and software-defined …software-defined data center gaining mainstream adoption....
TRANSCRIPT
ISSUES & TRENDS:CLOUD & SOFTWARE-DEFINED COMPUTING
Positive trend indicators:
Workloads/services already virtualized:
Increased adoption
70%
Faster deployment
60%
Greater tangible benefits and ROI
50%
Mission Critical Servers
45%
Active Directory/Directory
55%
Network
55%
Storage
55%
Test/Dev Servers
60%
Tech companies
42%
Business consulting and management firms
40%
Emergency services
35%
Financial services, banking, insurance, trading
35%
Information research and analysis
35%
Energy and utilities
32%
Education and universities
32%
Usage will increase for...
the biggest security gap holding organizations back is the
perception of inadequate security, or the fear that it’s not
as strong as physical data center security (52%), while, on
the other hand, 44% say the problem is split between a
lack of solutions, immaturity of offerings, and interoperability
issues.
70% say security will be less of an obstacleHowever...
Industries most deserving of attention for the way they’ve embraced software-defined computing while maintaining or even exceeding previous levels of security...
Broad adoption across multiple disciplines and vertical industries.
Top 3 concerns during migration:
Data breach
60%
Infrastructure-wide security & control
60%
Effective monitoring and visibility
55%
Encryption requirements
Entire workload
31%
Production data in workload
20%
Private data/PII only
17%
Entire workloads subject to compliance regs
11%
Only the data subject to compliance regs
5%
More information available upon request:
Network virtualization50%
Workloads traversing Hybrid Clouds40%
Hyper-converged infrastructure 40%Public Cloud50%
Storage virtualization55%
Concern of business and IT professionals: Security.
say security will slow down migration67%
believe there’ll be more data breaches and other security problems55%
expect more or the same amount of internal compliance and auditing issues70%
#1
In fact,
say effective automation—reducing the need for manual processes while ensuring top-tier security—is key to large-scale deployment of SDDC strategies and technologies.
90%
say consistent policies can be enforced that align to meet your compliance, security and business needs.95%
BENEFITS OF CLOUD and SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER (SDDC)
say current SDDC platforms and strategies ensuretop-tier security that meets their needs
believe better security helps them quickly derive the obvious benefits—agility, performance, cost savings
say optimal SDDC strategies and deployment noticeably benefit the bottom line, and quantifiably drive up virtualization ratios and server optimization
95%
95%
90%
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE: CLOUD & SOFTWARE-DEFINED
NETWORKING IN THE REAL-WORLD
Public Cloud
Platforms being adopted
Microsoft Azure
32%
VMware vCloud Air
24%
Amazon AWS
22%
Google Cloud
14%
IBM Softlayer
5%
Virtustream
2%
Top 3 workloads
Disaster recovery
60%Test/dev 60%
Directory services
55%
plan to move workloads to the Public Cloud75%
Software-defined data center gaining mainstream adoption.
The State of the Cloudand Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) 2016
Study conducted by HyTrust Inc. and sponsored by Intel
125 C-Level Executives (CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO, CISO/CSO); 125 VP-level Business/Tech Executives (VP, SVP, EVP)
Plus, 10% IT Directors, 20% IT Managers, 20% Systems/Network Admins & Engineers 100 Large Enterprises (1000+ employees); 400 SMBs/Mid-Sized Enterprises (250+ employees)
®
Primary sponsor :
Additional breakouts by Industry, Role (C-level to IT/Sys Admins) and Size of Enterprise/Org available upon request.