Before you get any further, let me reiterate – these are totally unscientific and the sample size is rather small as it was taken from two sessions at the conference focusing on SDN and application services. The good news is that the results pretty much mirror every other survey and research with respect to devops, cloud, and SDN.
One of my favorite questions is to determine whether cloud is being adopted because it makes sense or because it’s a mandate from on high. As expected, the majority (62%) of respondents indicated the adoption of cloud in their organization was… a company mandate.