Within five years, the majority of firms (93 percent) will have adopted a hybrid of cloud and on-premise solutions, or will have entirely migrated to the cloud.
According to a Hornetsecurity hybrid cloud adoption poll of 900+ IT professionals from Europe, North America, and Europe, this is the case.
In five years, half of the respondents (51%) expect to be'mostly in the cloud,' with one or two workloads remaining on-premise. With a few workloads on the cloud, 28% of respondents stated they'll stay largely on premise.
While 29% of respondents stated hybrid cloud solutions are a stepping stone to a complete cloud environment, 67 percent said hybrid is the end destination for their infrastructure due to workloads that must remain on premises. The rest claim to be remaining 100% on premise.
Many respondents cited data ownership, security, and cost concerns with cloud technology as reasons for staying on premise.
The hybrid cloud adoption survey also discovered that firms of all sizes had trust difficulties with the public cloud, with 31-36 percent of all surveyed company size groups expressing worries.
The survey also reveals that as users get more expertise with the public cloud, their skepticism grows. Respondents with 20+ years of expertise were more likely than those with one to five years of experience to express worries about the dependability of cloud platforms (34%). (24 percent ). 'Legacy systems or software,' according to half of all respondents, is another important reason why certain workloads must remain on premises, while 'application compatibility,' according to four out of ten organizations, is an obstacle to cloud migration.
Industry rules such as GDPR, HIPAA, and CMMC, among others, were also highlighted by 29% of respondents as a barrier to cloud adoption.
Companies indicate they are delaying full cloud migration due to a lack of 'technical knowhow or certified people' (48%), challenges with 'implementation of best practices within the company' (33%), connectivity concerns (33%), and 'secured access' (29%).
'Print & Imaging Services' was the most common task stopping IT teams from moving all services to the cloud (55 percent ). Databases, file storage, and application services are also listed by 50 percent, 45 percent, and 43 percent of respondents, respectively, as reasons for keeping partially on premise.
According to Hornetsecurity's research, hybrid cloud solutions still pose a number of issues. 'Monitoring and security' is at the top of the list, with half of the respondents expressing concern in this area. Nearly half of all respondents are concerned about 'networking and connectivity' (48 percent ). Finally, 'training and certification,"manageability and tooling,' and'resiliency and data recovery,' which are shared by 35 percent, 35 percent, and 33 percent of respondents, respectively, play a role in their concerns.
In five years, 47 percent of respondents who work in internal IT teams expect their workloads to be "primarily in the cloud," compared to 52 percent of respondents whose organization employs MSP services and 54 percent of respondents who work for MSPs. Internal IT departments, like those who use MSP services, have a low level of trust in cloud services, with 34 percent and 33 percent, respectively.
By Duncan MacRae
Source: Cloudtech
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