10 Key Facts About Shifting Cloud Patterns
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Privacy Preferences
52% said they're planning to migrate apps and/or data that were primarily part of a public cloud environment to a hosted, private cloud within the next year, and 19% said they'll migrate these apps and/or data to an on-premise cloud model. -
Moving Off Premises
Within two years, survey participants said their organization will devote an average of 59% of its total IT budget to hosting services, SaaS or other basic, off-premises services, while dedicating 40% of the tech budget to on-premises infrastructure and staff. -
Virtualized Infrastructure or Private Cloud
These respondents said they'll allocate 66% of their on-premise infrastructure spending to virtualized infrastructure or the private cloud in two years, while just 34% of that budget will support stand-alone, non-virtualized infrastructure. -
Exterior Designs
These respondents expect to designate 66% of their off-premise infrastructure spending to either hosted private clouds, the public cloud or basic Website hosting within two years, with dedicated servers accounting for only 33% of the rest. -
What's Driving the Hybrid Cloud Migration
35% consider security the top driver of hybrid cloud migration, while 19% cite increased team control and 17% said it's performance. -
Spending Breakdowns: Managed Services
68% said backup and recovery will represent a significant portion of their managed services spending over the next two years, while 54% cited disaster recovery/site recovery and 47% said app development tools and platforms will serve as a major focus here. -
Spending Breakdowns: App Hosting
57% said database needs will account for a significant portion of their app hosting spending, while 54% predicted that email services and 49% said business apps, such as enterprise resource planning tools, will represent a large share. -
Spending Breakdowns: Security Services
46% predicted that endpoint security will represent a significant portion of their security services spending, while 45% said that the encryption of confidential data stored in the cloud and 43% said Web application firewalls will serve as primary focuses. -
Strategic Voice
55% said both IT architects and software developers are influential in evaluating providers for hosting and cloud services, and 52% said IT infrastructure managers are. -
Vendor Options
35% said it’s most likely that a telecommunications provider will win their hosting project business, and 33% said it will probably be a hosting provider.
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Why Metrics Matter to the Channel The majority of companies are likely to migrate apps or data from a public cloud environment to a hybrid cloud model in the near future, according to a Microsoft-commissioned study conducted by 451 Research. The report indicates that these potential channel customers are seeking increased security, performance and overall control by making this move. Meanwhile, most organizational IT budgets are projected to fund hosting, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and additional off-premise initiatives, as opposed to on-premise infrastructure and staffing. "This presents a significant opportunity for (vendors) to provide value-added services to their customers," said Aziz Benmalek, general manager of Microsoft's hosted service provider business unit. "By offering these expanded services, cloud service providers will be able to drive additional consumption, increase revenue and serve as trusted advisors." More than 1,700 global hosting and cloud customers—including IT operations and administration professionals, app developers and marketing execs—took part in the research. Here are key takeaways from the study.