ostrato 2014 cloud computing survey: adoption, usage, and challenges
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Ostrato's 2014 Cloud Computing Survey a explores the broad trends surrounding cloud adoption among IT departments. The survey found that cloud adoption is generating many new issues that IT department are struggling to deal with. Companies of All Sizes are Using Clouds - The survey revealed that cloud services are popular across the enterprise spectrum. 63% of companies with more than 10,000 employees use cloud services. Almost half (43%) of small firms (100-1000 employees) deploy cloud services too. Challenges with Hybrid Cloud Implementation - Overall, survey respondents reported that their most pressing challenges were security (45%), management (28%), compliance (26%) and measuring (26%). For larger firms, security remained the number one issue, while integration with other IT services leapt in importance to number two. For smaller firms, cost jumped to second place behind security. Other findings include: • The most popular cloud services already in use were VMWare (48%), Amazon Web Services (48%) and Azure (28%). • More than one third (33%) of respondents plan on purchasing a cloud management platform in the next twelve months. About Ostrato - Ostrato empowers IT with a single, integrated cloud management platform for governing hybrid cloud environments, while orchestrating with IT services and reducing costs. Ostrato cloudSMTM is designed specifically for enterprises that want an integrated approach to governing and managing their heterogeneous cloud services, whether they are public, private or hybrid. The platform provides tools to ensure that the cloud is utilized to the best advantage across multiple groups and instances in terms of cost, performance, features, functionality and geographic location. More information can be found at www.ostrato.com.TRANSCRIPT
2014 Cloud Computing Survey: Adoption, Usage and Challenges
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THE SURVEY: This survey includes responses from 174 participants across all spectrums of the Enterprise ranging from startups to Fortune 100 co’s. Key questions and data points include:
• Compare your cloud usage and adoption to your industry peers. • Understand cloud adoption by Cloud Service Provider now and
beyond, and why. • What are the Top 5 Enterprise challenges associated with cloud
adoption, and how are your peers solving those challenges? • Prevalence of complimentary technologies like Docker, Puppet, Chef
& SaltStack. ABOUT: Ostrato provides an innovative, next generation cloud management platform which enables agile organizations to effectively govern, orchestrate and manage cloud computing services.
Background
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Respondent Demographics
38 34
22 19
51
1-100 101-1,000 1,001-5,000 5,001-10,000 >10,001
Num
ber
of R
espo
nden
ts
Employees in Organization
Management / C-Level
26%
Manager 25%
Individual Contributor
20%
Team Lead 11%
Vice President
10%
Architect 5%
Other 3%
Employee Base
Job Role
Base: Respondents (164)
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Industry Demographics
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Advertising & Marketing Retail & Consumer Durables
Airlines & Aerospace Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
Education Manufacturing
Government Finance & Financial Services
Other Telecom., Technology, Internet & Electronics
Number of Respondents
Existing Cloud Users Potential Users Not planning to use Cloud
Base: Respondents (164)
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4 5 5 7 8 10
13 14 15
83
Advertising & Marketing Retail & Consumer Durables
Airlines & Aerospace Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
Education Manufacturing
Government Finance & Financial Services
Other Telecom., Technology, Internet & Electronics
Number of Respondents
By Profile and Industry
By Industry Base: Respondents (164)
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86% Using Cloud Today
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Business Development
Finance
Product Management
Management
Consulting Services
Other
Development
Sales and Marketing
CTO / Architecture
IT Operations
% of Respondents
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Base: Respondents (203)
Survey Respondents
By Organization Base: Respondents (162)
Existing Cloud Users 86%
Potential Users of Cloud
7%
Not planning to use Cloud
7%
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No Surprise - VMware + AWS Lead
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Cloud Providers By Existing Users
Base: Respondents (348) Multiple choice question. Hence
348 is the total count of responses & not the individual
respondents 3%
4% 5%
7% 8%
10% 14%
24% 24%
Terremark Softlayer
Google Compute OpenStack Rackspace
Other Azure
AWS VMware
% of responses
6%
6%
19%
13%
6%
13%
13%
25%
3%
4%
5%
7%
8%
14%
24%
24%
Terremark
Softlayer
Google Compute
OpenStack
Rackspace
Azure
VMware
AWS
% of responses
Existing Users Potential Users
Existing vs. Potential Users Base: Respondents (348) Multiple choice question. Hence 348 is the total count of responses & not the individual respondents. Low sample in potential users.
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Agility & Scalability Top Drivers
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Need for Cloud By Existing Users
Base: Respondents (480) Multiple choice question. Hence
480 is the total count of responses & not the individual
respondents.
Existing vs. Potential Users Base: Respondents (480) Multiple choice question. Hence 480 is the total count of responses & not the individual respondents. Low sample in potential users.
2%
3%
6%
14%
15%
19%
21%
21%
CxO Mandate (Cloud is Cool)
Other
Interoperability / Portability
Improved BCP/DR
Faster Time to Market
Cost Savings
Scalability
Agility
% of responses
4%
9%
9%
17%
17%
22%
22%
2%
6%
14%
15%
19%
21%
21%
CxO Mandate (Cloud is Cool)
Interoperability / Portability
Improved BCP/DR
Faster Time to Market
Cost Savings
Scalability
Agility
% of responses
Existing Users Potential Users
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Puppet is Top Automation Platform
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Automation Platforms By
Existing Users Base: Respondents (117)
Multiple choice question. Hence
117 is the total count of responses & not the individual
respondents.
Automation Platforms Existing vs. Potential Users Base: Respondents (117) Multiple choice question. Hence 117 is the total count of responses & not the individual respondents. Low sample in potential users.
9%
10%
21%
30%
30%
Saltstack
Ansible
Chef
Puppet
Other
% of responses
17%
33%
0%
17%
33%
9%
10%
21%
30%
30%
Saltstack
Ansible
Chef
Other
Puppet
% of responses Existing Users Potential Users
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Containerization Education Needed
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Containerization By Existing Users
Base: Respondents (131)
8%
23%
31%
37%
Using
Evaluating
Plan to evaluate in next 6 months
What is containerization?
% of respondents
8%
23%
31%
37%
0%
9%
0%
91%
Using
Evaluating
Plan to evaluate in next 6 months
What is containerization?
% of respondents Potential Users Existing Users
Containerization Existing vs. Potential Users Base: Respondents (131) Multiple choice question. Hence 131 is the total count of responses & not the individual respondents. Low sample in potential users.
Yes 78%
No 22%
Yes 73%
No 27%
78% CIO Involvement
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Base: Respondents (131), Potential users for Cloud (11) Multiple choice question. Hence 131 is the total count of responses & not the individual respondents. Low sample in potential users.
Yes 46%
No 28%
Don't know 27%
Yes 9%
No 36%
Don't know 55%
Chargeback for Cost Analysis
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Base: Respondents (147), Potential users for Cloud (11) Multiple choice question. Hence 147 is the total count of responses & not the individual respondents. Low sample in potential users.
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Yes 88%
No 12%
88% will Expand Cloud
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Base: Respondents (147)
Cloud expansion in next 12 months – Existing Users
IT Deploys Cloud – Existing Users Base: Respondents (147)
32
18 24
73
<50% of the time
50-75% of the time
>75% of the time
All the time
Num
ber
of R
espo
nden
ts
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Yes 74%
No 26%
How big is your Cloud?
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Base: Respondents (131)
Involved in Selection of Cloud Tech – Existing Users
Size of Cloud Environment – Existing Users Base: Respondents (131)
53
27
16
35
<100 100-500 501-1,000 >1,000
Num
ber
of R
espo
nden
ts
Size of cloud environment (VM's / Instances / Nodes)
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18%
10%
28%
12%
29%
26%
19%
20% 27%
5%
5%
IT Department
Business Units
% of responses
Broker Manager Cloud Selection Contract / Pricing Negotiation None Other
Security – Top Challenge
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Role of IT vs. BU By Existing Users
Significant Challenges in Cloud – Existing Users Base: Respondents who use Cloud (467)
Base: Respondents who use Cloud – IT Department Role
(296); BU Role (190)
Multiple choice question. Hence 296 is the total count of responses
& not the individual respondents.
3% 12%
16% 17%
22% 23%
24% 24%
25% 26%
28% 45%
Other
Software Licensing
Workload Migration
IT Administration
Vendor Lock-In
Performance
Cost / Budget
Integration
Measuring / Maintaing ROI
Compliance
Management
Security
% of responses
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62% Require more than CSP Console
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Plan to Manage Cloud by Existing Users
Significant Challenges in Cloud – Existing Users Base: Respondents who use Cloud (467) Multiple choice question. Hence 467 is the total count of responses & not the individual respondents. Low sample in potential users.
Base: Respondents who use Cloud (174)
7%
8%
12%
13%
22%
38%
Other
Outsource to MSP / Cloud Service Brokerage for
In House Solutions
Subscribe to a SaaS Cloud Management Platform
Purchase a Cloud Management Platform,
Use Cloud Service Providers' features for
% of respondents
Within next 6 months
14%
Within next 12 months
29%
> 12 months 36%
Not Sure 21%
Yes 73%
No 27%
Cloud Selection & Adoption Timing
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Base: Respondents (174) Base: Respondents (174)
