Survey: Cloud Computing Takes a Backseat to On-Site Virtualization
March 27, 2013
Grazed from HeraldOnline. Author: Editorial Staff.
Scale Computing, industry leading developers of hyperconverged solutions that seamlessly combine servers, storage and virtualization into a single system, today released results of a market survey conducted by ApplicationContinuity.org. The report showcases why midmarket organizations are embracing on-premise virtualization over the cloud, the driving factors behind this decision, and what alternatives companies are choosing for their mission-critical applications and data.
More than 3,000 IT professionals in the US participated in the recent survey, which investigates the prevalence of choosing local infrastructure or the cloud, the types of applications IT teams are choosing to run on local infrastructures, and key concerns among IT professionals as to how and where data is managed. Despite widespread cloud-marketing by vendors, this study showed that 90 percent of participants responded that it was ‘important or very important’ to keep applications and data within their company-owned infrastructure rather than entrusting it to a cloud provider…
Additionally, the applications deemed as ‘core’ to running their businesses are the least likely to be considered for cloud migration. A staggering 90 percent of survey respondents feel the need to keep their mission-critical applications and data running on local infrastructure. “This survey highlights why HC3 has already become the virtualization choice for hundreds of midsize companies within its first few months on the market,” said Jeff Ready, CEO of Scale Computing. “We’re delivering an infrastructure that’s one-fifth the cost of a VMware-based offering while simultaneously stripping all of the complexity out of virtualization itself. HC3 delivers the benefits promised by the cloud but in a fully secure, on-premise solution. The HC3 platform delivers what small and midsize IT organizations demand: in-house infrastructure that is both disruptively affordable and ground-breaking in its ease-of-use.”…
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