Cloud Computing: Riverbed AWS re:Invent Survey find that Reliability Still Top Concern
November 27, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
Riverbed Technology (RVBD) has released the results of a survey conducted at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference earlier this month. In surveying 122 people responsible for IT management and application development management at large enterprises, the company turned up some interesting data that shows the top four concerns related to public cloud platforms.
The top concern, as indicated by 90 percent of survey respondents, is reliability. But the other top three concerns aren’t all that far off in terms of percentage. Of the respondents, 88 percent indicated performance as a top concern, followed by security at 86 percent and cost at 84 percent…
Considering the group being surveyed, it probably comes as little surprise that 96 percent of respondents said they are engaging in or discussing IaaS deployments. I mean, this was an AWS partner conference, after all. Also according to the survey, 53 percent of organizations have deployed at least one app to public cloud platforms. Of those who haven’t yet deployed an application on a public cloud, 83 percent said they expect that to change within the next six months…
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