Cloud growth explodes, non-IT roadblocks on the rise
September 30, 2013
Grazed from TechRepublic. Author: Brian Taylor.
451 Research has released its semi-annual TheInfoPro report on cloud computing. Analyst Peter ffoulkes speaks with TechRepublic about the increasing non-IT roadblocks that the survey uncovered. TheInfoPro, a service of 451 Research, has released its semi-annual report on cloud computing, which surveyed 100 IT professionals from February through May of 2013.
While the results predict the explosive growth of enterprise cloud projects, non-IT roadblocks are on the rise. Peter ffoulkes, TheInfoPro’s Research Director for Cloud Computing, hosted a webinar about the survey on September 17. TechRepublic had the chance to speak with him by telephone about the survey, and the people and process issues that enterprises are facing in their cloud deployments…
Key takeaways:
- 68 percent of respondents said they had non-IT roadblocks: 37 percent said “organization and budget,” 16 percent said “buy-in, resistance to change,” and 15 percent said “trust: reliability and visibility.”
- Additional roadblocks, each at 10 percent, were: “security policies,” “regulation and compliance,” and “people and time.”
- Roadblocks are increasing because we are still in the early stages of cloud deployment
- At the end of 2012, only a third of respondents were “sufficiently virtualized.” Virtualization process will last into 2015…
Read more from the source @ http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/tech-decision-maker/peter-ffoukes-cloud-growth-explodes-non-it-roadblocks-on-the-rise/