Cloud turning Mission-critical and Mixed

MUMBAI, INDIA: A latest Verizon report tells that 87 per cent of enterprises use cloud for mission critical workloads which is up from 60 per cent cited in its first report. It also points that private cloud is on the rise. Some 44 per cent enterprises are currently using, or plan to implement, a private cloud solution. Only slightly more than one in three respondents i.e. 37 per cent feel the same about public cloud.

What also appears is that no one cloud fits all. More than half (53 per cent) of enterprises use two to four cloud providers. And 26 per cent use more than 10. Enterprises are embracing a multi-cloud strategy. Cloud use in the enterprise continues to grow as 84 per cent say their cloud use has increased in the past year. Half of enterprises say they will use cloud for at least 75 per cent of their workloads by 2018.

In the State of the Market: Enterprise Cloud report, which is Verizon’s third annual report providing original data and analysis of cloud usage within the enterprise, and its impact on the IT organization and business at large; it is revealed that security isn’t an implementation impediment, the report adds. In fact, 80 per cent of enterprises say their cloud environment is as secure (40 per cent) or more secure (20 per cent say “a bit more secure,” 20 per cent say “much more secure”) compared to their on premise infrastructure. As to the network, enterprises believe the network is critical to the success of cloud projects. And 86 per cent of respondents say the cloud infrastructure is as available/reliable as their on premise infrastructure.