TRENDING
“
RAPIDLY EVOLVING
BUSINESS CHALLENGES MEAN THAT
DIVERSITY AND COLLABORATION
ARE NECESSARY TO MOVE FORWARD.
A CLOUD-LED STRATEGY MUST BE
AT THE HEART OF ANY DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION.
any Digital Transformation,” said Alex Hilton,
Chief Executive at the Cloud Industry Forum.
Finding #1: Organisations are cloud
keen and want to focus on outcomes
The results of the survey confirm that
there is almost a universal desire to shift
from traditional IT environments to cloud
solutions. A total of 87.2% of those surveyed
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stated that they would do this if a ‘perfect
solution’ existed. These results were reflected
at all levels, across business and technical
respondents – and 82% of respondents
agreed that the senior leadership in their
organisation ‘understands and values
progressive technology’. Yet, the survey also
found that more than three-quarters cited
‘lack of clear policy/strategy’ as a factor
impeding cloud adoption which supports
the policy review that CCS and GDS have
undertaken, as the survey also revealed more
focus is needed on the technical and non-
technical challenges of modernising existing
technology, not just building new cloud-
native applications.
Finding #2: Significant concern
about commercial risks of single
provider solutions
There is a lot of focus on the technical
challenges of adopting cloud but one of
the key revelations from the survey was
the extent of concern of the commercial
risks of cloud adoption. A total of 78% of
respondents expressed a fear of vendor
lock-in and a similar number agreed that
the risk of ‘over reliance on a sole provider’
is inhibiting their cloud adoption. More
than 85% agreed that they would prefer
multi-cloud, presumably as a means to
mitigate these commercial risks. These
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