Not surprisingly, Feds say security is a challenge \u2013 73 percent identify security as a primary barrier.\u00a0 As a result, most favor private clouds.\u00a0 Thirty-eight percent of respondents say they have moved a mission-critical application to a private cloud; 11 percent say they have moved a mission-critical application to a hybrid cloud; and, 10 percent say they have moved a mission-critical application to a public cloud.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrivate and hybrid clouds offer significant cost-saving benefits along with the necessary security infrastructure that have not yet been realized through public cloud models,\u201d said Kyle Keller, Cloud Business Director at EMC Federal.\u00a0 \u201cThe benefits of moving mission-critical applications to the cloud can be realized while also maintaining confidence in the security of those resources.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agencies spend 70 percent of their IT budget maintaining outdated legacy applications[1]<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 this is identified as a significant obstacle to cloud transition.\u00a0 Federal IT executives report that 52 percent of their mission-critical applications are custom built.\u00a0 When asked what would be required to make mission-critical applications ready for the cloud, 45 percent of Federal IT executives said these applications will require major re-engineering to modernize for the cloud.<\/p>\n Forty six percent of Federal IT executives say moving mission-critical applications to the cloud will improve their agencies ability to fulfill their mission, and 43 percent say it will improve their agencies\u2019 big data analytics capabilities.<\/p>\n Of those who have moved a mission-critical application to the cloud, 91 percent report success.\u00a0 Federal IT managers surveyed report moving applications including financial management, procurement, logistics, customer relationship management systems, and project management.<\/p>\n \u201cOur customers who are migrating their mission critical applications to the private cloud are realizing great benefits in cost savings, efficiency, availability and agility,\u201d says Aileen Black, Vice President of U.S. Public Sector, VMware.\u00a0 \u201cThese benefits, enabled by the cloud, are the keys to customer success in the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n “Transitioning legacy, mission-critical applications to the cloud is not a forklift exercise \u2013 in many cases it’s more like an organ transplant,” said Steve O’Keeffe, founder, MeriTalk.\u00a0 “With the complexity and security concerns, it’s not surprising many agencies want a private room.”<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been our experience that agencies are moving to the cloud in great numbers and are, as this survey clearly indicates, achieving significant benefits from doing so,\u201d said Craig P. Abod, President, Carahsoft. \u201cWhat began with virtualization now encompasses mission-critical applications as the next step in the journey and the value chain.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite the barriers, many Federal IT executives see mission-critical applications in the cloud in their agencies\u2019 futures.\u00a0 In two years, they expect 26 percent of their mission-critical applications to live in the cloud.\u00a0 In five years, they expect 44 percent to be in the cloud.\u00a0 In order to accomplish implementation goals, Federal IT executives recommend promoting cloud savings opportunities, identifying cloud-ready mission-critical applications, clarifying FedRAMP, and encouraging early adopters to share best practices.<\/p>\n \u201cMission-Critical Cloud:\u00a0 Ready for the Heavy Lift?\u201d is based on a survey of 151 IT Federal government managers and systems integrators in June 2012.\u00a0 The report has a margin of error of +\/- 7.95 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.<\/p>\n Download the study.<\/a><\/p>\n MeriTalk recently surveyed Federal IT professionals to understand if and how they are moving mission critical applications to the cloud. \u00a0They found that Feds estimate they can save $16.6 billion\u00a0annually if all agencies move just three mission-critical applications to the cloud. As Federal agencies are making cloud progress, the early-adopters that are moving their mission-critical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,976,977,173,183,978,73,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emc-corporation","category-federal-government-of-the-united-states","category-feds","category-government","category-hybrid-cloud","category-mission-critical","category-research","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=f504bee8-1208-4fc8-ba79-48ac845922e9\")
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