Security (Finally) Less of an Obstacle to Cloud Adoption: Report

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Security (Finally) Less of an Obstacle to Cloud Adoption: Report

Nearly three-quarters of organizations are planning to increase their public cloud workload this year, and Microsoft Azure is the platform the most intend to use, according to research released by virtualization control and security company HyTrust. The study, Industry Experience: the 2016 State of the Cloud and Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) in Real-World Environments, shows that companies generally believe that security is becoming less of an obstacle to cloud adoption.

While often-repeated security concerns remain the top barrier to cloud and virtualization adoption, HyTrust found that nearly half (45 percent) have virtualized “Tier 1” or sensitive and mission-critical applications. Additionally, 38 percent are planning to start or increase their use of virtualized Tier 1 applications.

“Without much fanfare, this critical technology advance has become woven into the basic fabric of businesses large and small,” said Eric Chiu, president of HyTrust. “The potential of virtualization and the cloud was always undeniable, but there was genuine concern over security and skepticism regarding the processes required. What we find in this research is that the challenges are being overcome, and every kind of function in every kind of industry is being migrated. There are some holdouts, to be sure, but they’re now the exception, and we’re betting they won’t stay that way for long.”

The results were taken from a survey of decision makers and network managers and administrators in the US and UK at companies of 250 or more employees. They show a split between industry verticals, with for instance companies in health care and related fields slightly more likely to have workloads in the cloud, whether those workloads are mission-critical, test/development, or storage.

Virtualization deployment can noticeably benefit the organization’s bottom line according to 88 percent of respondents, and half expect cloud to deliver greater tangible benefits and ROI this year.

While migration concerns likewise vary between industries, data security and breaches, monitoring and visibility, and infrastructure-wide security and control are all concerns for between 50 and 70 percent of companies in several different industries.

Almost one-third of those moving workloads to public cloud this year intend to use Azure (32 percent), well ahead of VMware vCloud Air at 24 percent and AWS at 22 percent.

The study also includes positive news for providers of specific services, as automation is seen as a key to large scale SDDC deployments by 9 out of 10, while disaster recovery is the workload most likely to be moved over to the cloud according to 64 percent.

The high adoption numbers indicate that the steep incline in public cloud revenues will continue for the foreseeable future.

Source: TheWHIR