• Survey Methodology
• Cloud Strategies
• Cloud Workloads
• Central IT Role in Cloud Adoption
• DevOps Adoption
• Cloud Benefits and Challenges
• Cloud Providers
Agenda
• 79,635 people from the RightScale database were emailed
the survey
• 930 responses
• 306 enterprises (1000+ employees)
• 3.2% margin of error
• Respondents are not just RightScale users
• 24% are RightScale users
Methodology
33%
22%
45%
Respondents by Company Size 930 respondents
Company Size
1001+
employees
101-1000
employees
1-100
employees
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
29%
29%
16%
7%
6%
5%
4%
4%
Respondents by Industry 930 respondents
Industry
Software
Tech
Services
Financial Services Other
Media & Publishing
Education
Advertising & Agencies
Business Services
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
62% 18%
12%
8%
Respondents by Region 930 respondents
Region
North America
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Europe
Asia
Rest of World
48%
14%
38%
Role of Respondents 930 respondents
Role of Respondents
Dev
Business
IT/Ops 21%
20%
18%
15%
13%
13%
Level of Respondents 930 respondents
Architect
Dir/Mgr
Exec
IT/Ops
Dev/QA
Other
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Cloud Maturity
10% 15% 23% 26% 26%
Cloud Maturity of Respondents
Cloud
Watchers
Cloud
Beginners
Cloud
Explorers
Cloud
Focused
No
Plans
Planning First project Apps running Heavy use
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Cloud is a Given
Public Cloud
Only
Private Cloud
Only
93% of Respondents Are Using Cloud
58% 5% 30%
Public
and Private
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Private = 63% Public = 88%
82% of Enterprises Want Multi-Cloud
Single private 5%
Single public 10%
No plans 3%
Multiple private 14%
Multiple public 13%
Hybrid cloud 55%
82%
Enterprise Cloud Strategy 1000+ employees
Multi-Cloud
82%
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
7%
18%
12%
13%
18%
32%
10%
11%
16%
28%
31%
27%
42%
22%
13%
VirtualizedEnvironments
Private Clouds
Public Clouds
Number of VMs Enterprises Are Running in Cloud
None 1-50 VMs 51-100 VMs 100-1000 VMs 1000+ VMs
VMs Running in Cloud for Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
7%
12%
23%
32%
14%
16%
28%
27%
27%
13%
Public Clouds in1 Year
Public CloudsNow
Number of VMs Enterprises are Running in Public Cloud
None 1-50 VMs 51-100 VMs 100-1000 VMs 1000+ VMs
Growth in VMs Running in Public Cloud –
Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
8%
18%
21%
18%
9%
11%
32%
31%
31%
22%
Private Cloudsin 1 yr
Private CloudsNow
Number of VMs Enterprises are Running in Private Cloud
None 1-50 VMs 51-100 VMs 100-1000 VMs 1000+ VMs
Growth in VMs Running in Private Cloud –
Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
68%
32%
Enterprise Application Portfolio That Is in Cloud
Enterprises Run Fraction of Workloads in Cloud
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Less than 20% of
app portfolio is
in cloud
More than 20% of
app portfolio is
in cloud
45%
55%
Enterprise Application Portfolio That is Cloud-Ready
Plenty of Headroom for More Apps to Migrate
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Less than 20% of
app portfolio is
cloud-ready
More than 20% of
app portfolio is
cloud-ready
62%
38%
Cloud Purchase Decisions in the Enterprise
Central IT Taking On Most Cloud Purchase
Decisions At the Enterprise
Central IT makes
less than half of
cloud purchase
decisions
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Central IT makes
more than half of
cloud purchase
decisions
47%
2014
Central IT Concerns About Security Decline
41%
2015
Central IT Rating Cloud Security As Significant Challenge
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
18%
2014
Central IT Warms Up to Public Cloud
28%
2015
Enterprise Central IT Viewing Public Cloud As Top Priority
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
41%
18%
40% 40%
0%
20%
40%
60%
Works in Central IT Works in Business Unit
Respondents that see Central IT Role to Broker Cloud Services
2014
2015
Central IT Emerges As a Cloud Broker
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
43%
41%
16%
Enterprises with Self-Service Portal for Cloud Services
Cloud Services Portal are Table Stakes for the
Enterprise
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Have portal
Planning or
developing
portal
No plans
40%
2014
And Fast-Provisioning to Cloud Is Ubiquitous
80%
2015
Enterprises with Self-Service Portal for Cloud Services % Respondents with less than 1 hour provisioning time
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
DevOps Adoption Rises in 2015
62%
66%
22%
19%
16%
15%
2014
2015
DevOps Adoption Up in 2015
Adopting DevOps Not adopting Don't Know
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Enterprises Adopt DevOps at Higher Rate
63%
71%
22%
13%
15%
16%
SMB
Enterprise
Enterprise vs. SMB DevOps Adoption
Adopting DevOps Not adopting Don't Know
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
3%
6%
10%
13%
24%
28%
11%
10%
10%
35%
19%
18%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Rocket
Salt
Ansible
Docker
Puppet
Chef
Respondents Using DevOps Tools
Use today
Plan to use
2015 DevOps Tools – All Respondents
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Finding:
Financial Benefits of Cloud
Show Strongest Gains;
Lack of Cloud Expertise Rises to #2
Challenge
28%
34%
33%
34%
37%
33%
46%
48%
52%
53%
38%
39%
40%
40%
40%
41%
48%
51%
57%
57%
Move CapEx to OpEx
Cost savings
Higher performance
Business continuity
Geographic reach
IT staff efficiency
Faster time-to-market
Higher availability
Faster access to infrastructure
Greater scalability
Cloud Benefits 2015 vs. 2014 % of Respondents Reporting These Benefits
2015
2014
Financial Benefits From Cloud Show Strong
Growth in 2015
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Cloud Beginners Cloud Explorers Cloud Focused
% o
f R
esp
on
de
nts
Benefits Grow with Cloud Maturity % of Respondents Reporting These Benefits
CapEx to OpEx
Geographic reach
Higher performance
Cost savings
Business continuity
IT staff efficiency
Higher availability
Faster time-to-market
Greater scalability
Faster access to infrastructure
Benefits Grow with Cloud Maturity
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
17%
21%
21%
18%
24%
17%
26%
17%
23%
24%
25%
25%
27%
28%
Performance
Governance/control
Managing costs
Managing multiple cloud services
Compliance
Lack of resources/expertise
Security
Cloud Challenges 2015 vs. 2014 % of Respondents Reporting These As Significant Challenges
2015
2014
Lack of Expertise/Resources Becomes #2
Cloud Challenge
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
0%
20%
40%
60%
Cloud Beginners Cloud Explorers Cloud Focused
% o
f R
esp
on
de
nts
Challenges Decrease with Cloud Maturity % of Respondents Reporting These As Significant Challenges
Lack of resources/expertise
Security
Compliance
Governance/control
Managing costs
Managing multiple cloud services
Building a private cloud
Performance
Challenges Decrease with Cloud Maturity
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
2%
6%
7%
9%
10%
10%
15%
19%
50%
7%
11%
13%
12%
14%
10%
20%
23%
20%
6%
6%
11%
9%
10%
7%
14%
13%
7%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
HP Helion Public Cloud
IBM SoftLayer
Google IaaS
Google App Engine
VMware vCloud Air
Rackspace Public Cloud
Azure PaaS
Azure IaaS
AWS
Enterprise Public Cloud Usage % of Respondents Running Applications
Running apps
Experimenting
Plan to use
Public Cloud Usage – Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
4%
5%
4%
8%
18%
9%
12%
11%
49%
2%
6%
7%
9%
10%
10%
15%
19%
50%
HP Helion Public Cloud
IBM SoftLayer
Google IaaS
Google App Engine
VMware vCloud Air (vCHS)
Rackspace Public Cloud
Azure PaaS
Azure IaaS
AWS
Enterprise Public Cloud Usage 2015 vs. 2014 % of Respondents Running Applications
2015
2014
Public Cloud Usage YoY – Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%
8%
9%
11%
61%
4%
8%
7%
17%
9%
14%
13%
8%
16%
5%
7%
7%
14%
12%
10%
11%
10%
7%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
HP Helion Public Cloud
VMware vCloud Air
IBM SoftLayer
Google IaaS
Azure PaaS
Google App Engine
Azure IaaS
Rackspace Public Cloud
AWS
SMB Public Cloud Usage % of Respondents Running Applications
Running apps
Experimenting
Plan to use
Public Cloud Usage – SMB
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
4%
6%
4%
4%
5%
10%
4%
13%
56%
2%
3%
4%
5%
6%
8%
9%
11%
61%
HP Helion Public Cloud
VMware vCloud Air (vCHS)
IBM SoftLayer
Google IaaS
Azure PaaS
Google App Engine
Azure IaaS
Rackspace Public Cloud
AWS
SMB Public Cloud Usage 2015 vs. 2014 % of Respondents Running Applications
2015
2014
Public Cloud Usage YoY – SMB
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
PaaS Gets Used with IaaS
IaaS
Only
PaaS Only
PaaS Is Used in Conjunction with IaaS
15% 1% 55%
Any IaaS &
Any PaaS
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
PaaS= 16% IaaS= 70%
11%
14%
18%
19%
26%
53%
15%
10%
22%
14%
15%
10%
11%
5%
10%
7%
8%
6%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Microsoft Azure Pack
Citrix CloudStack
OpenStack
Microsoft System Center
VMware vCloud Suite
VMware vSphere/vCenter
Enterprise Private Cloud Usage % of Respondents Running Applications
Running apps
Experimenting
Plan to use
Private Cloud Usage – Enterprises
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Not asked in 2014
13%
15%
21%
26%
52%
11%
14%
18%
19%
26%
53%
Microsoft Azure Pack
Citrix CloudStack
OpenStack
Microsoft System Center
VMware vCloud Suite
VMware vSphere/vCenter
Enterprise Private Cloud Usage 2015 vs. 2014 % of Respondents Running Applications
2015
2014
Private Cloud Usage YoY – Enterprise
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
4%
6%
6%
6%
10%
23%
9%
7%
9%
8%
18%
9%
9%
6%
7%
7%
11%
6%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Microsoft Azure Pack
Citrix CloudStack
VMware vCloud Suite
Microsoft System Center
OpenStack
VMware vSphere/vCenter
SMB Private Cloud Usage % of Respondents Running Applications
Running apps
Experimenting
Plan to use
Private Cloud Usage – SMB
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
Not asked in 2014
4%
7%
8%
11%
24%
4%
6%
6%
6%
10%
23%
Microsoft Azure Pack
Citrix CloudStack
VMware vCloud Suite (vCD)
Microsoft System Center
OpenStack
VMware vSphere/vCenter
SMB Private Cloud Usage 2015 vs. 2014 % of Respondents Running Applications
2015
2014
Private Cloud Usage YoY – SMB
Source: RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report
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