Global Organizations Want SDN, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Survey Shows

March 23, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Dan Kobialka.

Security remains paramount for global organizations interested in cloud computing, according to a new Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) survey. The ODCA’s fourth-annual member survey revealed that security was the top cloud adoption concern among global organizations. The survey also showed that more than 80 percent of respondents said they are using or plan to use hybrid cloud solutions at some point in the future.

Other survey results included:

  • For the past three years, the number of organizations with less than 20 percent of their operations in a public cloud ranged from 79 percent to 88 percent.
  • Over the past three years, there has been significant growth in private cloud implementations, with the greatest growth in organizations that have more than half of their services in private clouds…

  • In 2012, 18 percent of survey respondents said their organizations would house 60 percent of their operations in private clouds by 2016. Since then, that number has doubled…

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