Adoption of cloud and its impact database:

PREDICTIONS FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW

2012

Private cloud with on-premise or hybrid integration is the prevalent adoption path for enterprises

Hype is over – serious adoption begins

CLOUD BARRIER:

Any obstacle or perceived problem that prohibits cloud adoption by a company, such as lack of security, support and control, regulatory concerns, and difficulty meeting SLAs.

CAPEX TO OPEX, OR CAPEX VS. OPEX:

Refers to economic differences between cloud and on-premise computing, because on-premise requires capital expenditure, while cloud pay as you go service is an ongoing operating expenditure.

HOW CLOUD ADOPTION IMPACTS ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE VENDORS

CLOUD BARRIERS are dropping. Vendors are stepping up to address security, performance, compliance and integration concerns.

HOW CLOUD ADOPTION IMPACTS ENTERPRISE IT

COST SAVINGS (CAPEX TO OPEX) gives way to business agility, time-to-value and overall efficiency as primary adoption drivers.

2013

SECURITY AND PENETRATION tests emerge as a requirement of cloud implementations.

By 2016, 40 percent of enterprises will make proof of independent security testing a precondition for using any type of cloud service.

Enterprises looking for alternatives to on-premise deployments-but must maintain control over SLAs for their high-value customers-turn to private clouds for B2B interaction management and governance

Strong adoption of mobile devices (phones and tablets) drives enterprises to think about what kind of internal applications to mobilize.

MOBILE IS KING (Smart phones, tablets, etc). Enterprise app stores and marketplaces replace traditional application deployment and maintenance processes, making it easier for employees and customers to consume services within and outside company walls.

“Mobile device spending will exceed pc spending, growing 4x as fast.”

2012 will be the first year in which spending from these devices ($277 billion) exceeds that for PCs ($257 billion), growing at 23% – almost 5 times Pc spending growth.

2014

Six in ten CIOs think it (cloud) will become the most significant method of IT delivery by 2014

Cloud is the primary operating model for enterprise IT organizations

ENTERPRISE BUYERS FORCE INDUSTRY TO ADOPT SLA STANDARDS.

Security and penetration tests are requirements of enterprise B2B implementations.

SAAS vendors and enterprises pressure IAAS to “move up the stack” to PAAS and provide management, security, regulatory and disaster recovery services.

Infrastructure as a service. (IAAS) cloud infrastructure services, including software, servers, networking equipment, all outsourced.

ENTERPRISE IT departments become service management organizations responsible for managing on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud services. Business drives more technology decisions and IT is more involved with the business.

2015

Economies of scale and cloud security assurances drive enterprises to adopt public cloud services

ENTERPRISES DEMAND

Flexible SAAS licensing models, regardless of where software is deployed, change the face of enterprise software license models forever.

Survey data from the past few years shows the steady decline or traditional software licensing spending compared with more flexible business models, such as subscriptions, pay-per-use options, and used licenses.

CLOUD COMPLEXITY

Is the main issue reported by enterprises, driving better management tools to be created and used

The flexibility and choice that is a great benefit of the cloud lead to a significant increase in the number of vendor relationships and services to be managed across hybrid environments. Management of vendor services. SLA’s. Billing etc becomes a complex problem for enterprise IT who is now service managers, not just providers.

This issue drives the adoption of cloud brokers to act as intermediaries and solve issues of integration. Management and service aggregation.

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