Computing Cloud & Infrastructure Review 2016
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Computing Cloud & Infrastructure Review 2016
Cloud first, cloud only or cloud never?
Key highlights from the research include:
• Seventy-seven per cent of those surveyed are using cloud services to some extent. A further ten per cent are trialling them.
• Three quarters of survey respondents expect their use of cloud services to increase in the next year.
• The proportion of respondents expecting to focus their data centre strategies mainly on external hosting or cloud infrastructure is expected to triple in the next three years.
• Twenty per cent are pursuing a "cloud-first" strategy. By 2019, it is anticipated that 40 per cent will be doing so.
• Security remains the most frequently raised objection to public cloud although the perception of public cloud security has improved enormously.
• Flash-based storage technology is increasingly used in data centres as it has become cheaper, with hybrid arrays still the most popular approach.