CIOs today are operating in a complex technology and political climate as they architect their IT infrastructures for a hybrid cloud environment of on-premises, private cloud and public cloud computing services used by both IT and end users.
This complexity is reflected in a February, 2017 survey of more than 1,000 IT executives and practitioners by SaaS cloud services provider Rightscale. Among the survey findings:
- 85 percent of enterprises had a multicloud strategy;
- Cloud users were running applications in an average of 1.8 public clouds and 2.3 private clouds;
- Enterprises were running 32 percent of workloads in public cloud and 43 percent of workloads in private cloud.
The Rightscale survey also revealed that central IT selected public clouds 65 percent of the time, and it advised and decided on private clouds and also on which applications to move to the cloud 63 percent of the time. Despite this, survey results also indicated that business unit leaders were less likely to give authority to IT for selecting public clouds (41%), deciding/advising on which applications to move to cloud (45%), and selecting private clouds (38%).
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