Enterprises keen to adopt cloud technology: HP Research

To change the methodologies of Business and to meet the changing needs of the same enterprises are keen to adopting cloud technology to minimize the cost. The HP’s global research reveals that enterprises are showing significant gains in private cloud investments and establishing hybrid delivery models that will meet their needs as organizational requirements change.

According to a new global study by 2016, 77 percent of enterprise IT delivery is expected to be cloud-based in Asia Pacific, with 38 percent as private cloud, 22 percent as managed cloud (private cloud managed by someone else) and 17 percent as public cloud. Traditional IT will remain a key delivery model accounting for 24 percent.

Rapid adoption rates in Asia Pacific are driven by respondents’ expectations that cloud will lower costs by 59 percent, drive agility by 58 percent and improve customer service by 62 percent. However, while the respondents expect these benefits, nearly half of organizations (46percent) admit that they are not running any return on investment analysis for their cloud initiatives. For those organizations that do have some form of measurement, 13 percent say they only use “time to delivery” metrics, while 10 percent measure their cloud implementations by calculating the cost benefits.

The study indicated that as budgets continue to be funneled to cloud technology, enterprises want open architectures that span private, public, managed and traditional delivery models. In fact, 59 percent of respondents in Asia Pacific believe that cloud computing should evolve to an open platform.

The research also outlined the critical factors to implementing a cloud strategy and moving applications to the cloud.

• Asia Pacific respondents noted defining service level agreements (SLAs) (62percent), meeting regulation and governance (56percent), managing issues with data sovereignty (54 percent) and identifying the right, strategic partner (42percent) as the primary barriers to cloud solution implementation.
• Sixty one percent of the companies surveyed have created a cloud sourcing strategy for the initial applications and workloads to be moved to the cloud.
• For organizations with a cloud sourcing strategy, the most important applications to move to the cloud are customer relationship management (CRM) (70 percent), marketing (66%), and storage and archival (63 percent), with finance applications being the least likely to be transitioned.
• Respondents in Asia Pacific rated security (68 percent); highly specified SLAs (66percent) and the ability to handle enterprise-grade workloads (48 percent) as the most important capabilities in an organization’s public cloud usage with credit card (pay-as-you-go) based solutions ranked least important, at 43 percent.