How are Cloud Objectives and Obstacles

Impacting IT Decision-Makers?

81%

WHATS NEXT?
Top Goals Driving Cloud Investments are
#1 Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
#2 Improving Application Scalability/
Flexibility
#3 Eliminating Capital Expenditure

plan to invest or
increase cloud
investment in the
next 12 months.

WHOS INVOLVED?
Top Individuals Involved in the
Purchase Process are1
CIO or Top IT Executive

Enterprise will invest

$3.3B in cloud services

compared to
$400K for SMB.

IT/Networking Management
(55% Enterprise vs. 30% SMB)
(45% Enterprise vs. 25% SMB)

WHAT ARE THEY INVESTING IN?

Organizations are
investing in an average of

3 cloud technologies.

Top Cloud Computing Investments are

#1 Software-as-a-Service
#2 Private Cloud Infrastructure
#3 Hybrid Cloud

WHAT MAY GET IN THE WAY?

of organizations
have created, or plan
to create a cloud
governance policy. 1

61%

FORECAST

In 2014,

the top benefits of cloud

computing include increased
IT agility, IT innovation
and employee
collaboration. 1

(70% Enterprise vs. 43% SMB)

1

IT/Networking Staff

80%

LATEST CLOUD

Top Cloud Computing Challenges are 1

#1 Concerns about the security
of cloud computing solutions
#2 Concerns surrounding integration
#3 Concerns about information governance

agree that their organization is evaluating investments in

emerging technologies such as SDN and network virtualization
as a way to get the most agility out of its cloud investments.1

Sources: 2014 Navigating IT: Objectives and Obstacles, InfoWorld / 2014 Cloud Computing Survey, IDG Enterprise 1

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57%

of IT decision-makers feel
that cloud computing will be
impacted by the Internet of
Things in the next
12 months.

37%

of organizations plan to
move data storage/data
management to the cloud
in the next 3 years. 1

61%

say that vendors must

implement monitoring and
access control policies and
procedures to become a
trusted partner. 1