Cloud services continue to be adopted at a ferocious pace and a lot of research is being conducted on how companies are building IT strategies around the cloud. We’ve poured over the internet to find the best research on cloud.
Cloud security
- More than 70% of organizations will be using Security-as-a-Service by 2021, according to Gartner (link)
- Just 21% of organizations use Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) (link)
- 83% of organizations say they need to improve their cloud security (link)
- 48% of respondents cited that their biggest barrier to cloud adoption was security and 37% stated the need to remain compliant was the most prevalent blocker (link)
- 76% of security professionals admit securing their cloud environments is a struggle (link)
- 45% of companies globally have experienced security attacks fuelled by visibility and control deficiencies relating to the management and access of IaaS (link)
- 65% consider cloud security the most important skill for migrating or implementing cloud infrastructure (link)
- 79% of enterprises want better-integrated security and governance for their data in the cloud (link)
- 92% believe their organization has a cloud security readiness gap (link)
Cloud adoption
- 92% of organizations say their IT environment (infrastructure, applications, data, analytics etc) is in the cloud to some extent today, and is expected to grow to 95% 18 months from now (link)
- 55% of organizations currently use multiple public clouds. Of this group, 34% say their organization uses two public clouds, 10% use three and 11% more than three (link)
- More than 88% of respondents use cloud infrastructure in one form or another, and 45% of organizations expect to move three quarters or more of their applications to the cloud over the next twelve months (link)
- 21% of organizations are hosting all applications in a cloud context (link)
- 49% of organizations are running applications in traditional on-premises context (link)
- 39% of organizations are using a combination of public and private cloud deployments in a hybrid model (link)
- More than 56% of respondents said they are currently working on or planning cloud migration projects for this year (link)
Cloud market
- Worldwide public cloud services market totalled $233.4 billion in 2019, representing a 26% increase YoY according to IDC (link)
- Cloud-based security was cited as the number one critical skill area needed to migrate to or implement cloud-based infrastructure (65%) (link)
Cloud strategy
- In Q2 2020, spending on cloud infrastructure services surged by 31% (link)
- 32% of IT budgets will be dedicated to the cloud by 2021 (link)
- Executives estimate that at least 30% of their cloud spending is wasted (link)
- More than half (54%) of public cloud users report having captured their cost-saving goals, only 28% have experienced their anticipated speed to market benefits (link)
- 68% of CIOs are worried about vendor lock-in regarding public cloud (link)
- Over 75% of organizations have deployed workloads in the cloud (link)
- Hybrid cloud is the most popular form of cloud deployment, accounting for 42% of configurations (link)
- 81% of IT professionals said most data center and network tasks will be completely automated by 2025 (link)
- 86% of IT decision-makers believe the shortage of talent will slow down cloud projects (link)
- By 2025, more than 90% of enterprises will have an automation architect, up from less than 20% today (link)