Survey Shows Central IT is Now Taking the Lead in Enterprise Cloud Adoption
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 18, 2015) - RightScale® Inc., a demonstrated leader in enterprise cloud portfolio management today announced the results of the 2015 State of the Cloud Survey. Enterprises are increasingly implementing a hybrid cloud strategy that encompasses public and private clouds as well as existing virtualized environments. Although more enterprise workloads are currently deployed in private clouds, public clouds are used more broadly and are expected to attract new workloads at a faster rate. The survey found that enterprise central IT teams are now making the majority of cloud spending decisions and taking the lead to broker cloud services to their organization.
"The tide of enterprise cloud adoption has shifted from shadow IT to strategic adoption led by central IT teams," said Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale. "As enterprise IT has become more open to public cloud and more comfortable with cloud security, it is now in a strong position to broker cloud services to internal customers and drive cloud adoption forward. In the next year organizations expect to shift more workloads to cloud, with public cloud workloads growing faster than private cloud."
The full results of the survey are available in the RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report at www.rightscale.com/2015-cloud-report.
Highlights of the RightScale 2015 State of the Cloud Report include:
Survey Methodology
RightScale conducted its annual State of the Cloud Survey in January 2015. The survey questioned technical professionals across a broad cross-section of organizations about their adoption of cloud computing. The 930 respondents range from technical executives to managers and practitioners and represent organizations of varying sizes across many industries. Respondents represent companies across the cloud spectrum, including both users (24 percent) and non-users (76 percent) of RightScale solutions. Their answers provide a comprehensive perspective on the state of the cloud today. The margin of error is 3.2 percent.
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