{"id":13562,"date":"2015-04-12T23:52:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T23:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/apr\/13\/hybrid-cloud-adoption-set-triple-three-years-according-new-research-figures\/"},"modified":"2015-04-12T23:52:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T23:52:29","slug":"hybrid-cloud-adoption-set-to-triple-in-three-years-according-to-new-research-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hybrid-cloud-adoption-set-to-triple-in-three-years-according-to-new-research-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Hybrid cloud adoption set to triple in three years according to new research figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/janniwet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hybrid cloud adoption is set to triple in the next three years with economics as the primary driver, according to new research from Peer 1 Hosting.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which polled over 900 IT decision makers in the UK and North America, found cutting IT costs (49%) was the biggest IT priority within their organisations. Improving processes and operational efficiencies (45%) was also a popular response.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, more than half (52%) of those polled said their primary IT approach was to use private cloud, followed by 31% for on-premise, 10% for hybrid cloud, and 7% for public cloud. Respondents expect this to significantly change by 2018, with private cloud deployments at 41%, hybrid at 28%, on-prem at 17% and public at 14%.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what the key challenges were in achieving IT priorities in the coming year, security (53%) was the most cited choice, followed by data protection concerns (46%), budget constraints (39%) and lack of efficiency (25%).<\/p>\n<p>The results chime in alongside current sentiment about hybrid cloud deployments and architectures. It makes sense to large organisations with complex, legacy architectures, who can dip their toes into a public cloud environment. As Sean McAvan, managing director of NaviSite Europe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/apr\/10\/why-hybrid-cloud-way-forward-it-leaders\/\">penned for this publication earlier in April<\/a>, the idea that certain data and workloads are better suited to a private cloud infrastructure, or a physical hosted platform, makes the decision to go hybrid a popular one.<\/p>\n<p>Yet security is key &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/feb\/04\/heres-why-vmware-hasnt-left-it-too-late-its-hybrid-cloud-push\/\">VMware, who made its relatively late push into hybrid cloud in February<\/a>, has a disaster recovery set for those who are still concerned about where their data resides.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Owen, vice president of product at Peer 1, noted this importance. &ldquo;Hybrid cloud adoption appears to be held back by concerns largely related to security and data protection,&rdquo; he said in a statement. &ldquo;Clearly, these are areas where businesses cannot compromise.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As the industry responds to this, with truly scalable, flexible and controllable hybrid cloud solutions, I believe that IT decision makers will be quicker to adopt hybrid cloud than this research suggests,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/janniwet<br \/>\nHybrid cloud adoption is set to triple in the next three years with economics as the primary driver, according to new research from Peer 1 Hosting.<br \/>\nThe study, which polled over 900 IT decision makers in the UK and North America, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13563,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13562\/revisions\/13563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}