CLOUD COMPUTING
CLOUD COMPUTING
There is an undeniable movement towards the cloud.
The benefits of scalability, storage and security are drawing more and more businesses to base their IT practices in the unseen cloud in the sky.
What percentage of your IT systems are in the cloud?
Businesses are clearly increasing their dependence on the cloud. A sharp rise in 40-60% of systems being stored in the cloud is fueled by 2017’s 0-20% cohort moving more systems to the cloud in the past 12 months.
While instances of businesses storing between 60% and 100% of their systems in the cloud is still low at 12%, we would expect to see this grow in the future.
How much confidence do you have in these services to keep your data secure and available?
As cloud computing matures, IT teams face new challenges. This likely explains why confidence and concerns have fluctuated in recent years – it has not been a smooth upward trend by any means.
Expect to see more ‘mood swings’ in the future, although hopefully on an upward curve over the long-term.
10 YEARS OF
CLOUD COMPUTING
Remind yourself of how quickly cloud computing has taken hold. How much have attitudes changed – has yours?
DRAG
2009
AWS S3 storage
reaches 52 billion
objects stored
2013
34% of businesses
would never consider
moving their entire IT
infrastructure to the
cloud (DHC 2013)
2016
Amazon Web Services
launches UK Region in
London
2010
OpenStack launched
as a joint project by
Rackspace and NASA
2015
Security, functionality of
service and reputation are
the most important factors
when choosing a cloud
service provider (DHC 2015)
2017
VMware sells off its
public cloud hosting
business
10 YEARS OF
CLOUD COMPUTING
Remind yourself of how quickly cloud computing has taken hold. How much have attitudes changed – has yours?
