Only 13 percent of businesses use public cloud across the organization:
Despite 77 percent of businesses using public cloud in some form, a new survey reveals that just 13 percent have a fully-fledged public cloud program across the entire business.
The study from transformation consultancy Contino finds 42 percent have multiple apps and projects deployed in the cloud, 24 percent are still working on initial proofs-of-concept and 18 percent are in the planning stage.
Security and compliance remain the biggest barriers for not adopting cloud even in uncertain times. 48 percent say that their biggest barrier for not using the cloud is security and 37 percent cied the need to remain compliant as the most prevalent blocker.
[...] You can get the full report from the Contino site.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Tuesday October 13 2020, @09:37AM (5 children)
Between the bean counters who want to go fully cloudy to same a little money on IT, and IT that knows better and wants nothing to do with it.
In the end, like always, management decides to decide nothing, the company tries a little cloud, the struggle between the accountants and the technical folks reaches a point of equilibrium, and things stay half-cloudy with little added value to show for it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @11:05AM (3 children)
The cloud's killer feature is scaling up and down. If your resource usage is consistent over time, you might save a lot of money doing your own hosting.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Tuesday October 13 2020, @12:31PM (2 children)
Mostly, all the money you save yearly thanks to cloudiness is lost as soon as you lose internet access for a few hours and your business grinds to a halt.
Cloud == false economy
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday October 13 2020, @10:01PM
When Gmail was down for two hours last year we saved money by installing new rack-mount servers in an air conditioned room and hiring a six-figure admin. /s
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 14 2020, @01:55PM
I'm a hippie commie anarchist leftist so I hate Jeff Bezos for his anti-union actions, his treatment of employees, and the fact that he has more wealth than all of the other employees Amazon has ever had combined.
Having said that, my employer has been using AWS for all of our hosting for years and we've never had an outage that was Amazon's fault.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday October 13 2020, @11:26AM
This is likely the opposite of that. Most compliance issues are due to woefully outdated laws rather than technical reality. For example, in a lot of sectors fax is considered the only secure method of transmission. So migrating to the cloud is "insecure"/non-compliant.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @10:23AM
The report referenced in TFA can't be viewed/downloaded from the consultancy who wrote it unless you register with them.
As such, I'm going to go full on Bartleby [columbia.edu] on this one.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 13 2020, @01:56PM
13% of businesses were stupid enough to put their livelihood dependent on random events on the Internet.
87% of businesses were wise enough to not do this.
"Security and compliance remain the biggest barriers for not adopting the ideology of putting your valuable business information on a bunch of random servers potentially moved around the world at a whim, analyzed and a primary target for hackers".