Biggest concerns of cloud adopters

Apparently, security is not one of the major concern when it comes to implementing cloud solutions any more. Enterprises have started getting comfortable with the concept of cloud and are looking beyond.

A study shows that enterprises are most concerned over vendor lock-in and portability. The study initiated by HP reveals that over 60% of senior business and technology executives surveyed are concerned about vendor lock-in when implementing cloud solutions, while 72% percent of respondents feel portability of workloads between cloud models is important when implementing cloud solutions.

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In Search Cloud Applications, Arun Taneja, founder and president of Taneja Group(storage and server technologies) gives 3 tips to avoid cloud vendor lock-in.

1. Read the fine print of each provider’s policies, and if necessary, ask them directly how they facilitate moving customer data out of their cloud storage repository.
2. Ask the provider whether they offer data migration tools or services to facilitate the movement of large amounts of data.
3. Choose providers that have pledged to support emerging industry standards, such as the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard created by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

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When technology executives consider a public cloud solution, 68% feel their organizations need an open, transparent underlying infrastructure, 60% feel the need for service level agreements and 47% require enterprise billing before putting production applications in the cloud. 62% of business and technology decision makers said it is important for their organizations to be in a position to instantly expand to external cloud service provider to gain additional capacity and easily manage uneven service demands.

The study also revealed that enterprises see hybrid delivery as the future of cloud while highlighting the challenges they face in creating hybrid environments. Enterprises anticipate using a hybrid delivery model consisting of traditional IT, managed cloud, private and public cloud offerings. 69% of organizations in Asia Pacific and Japan surveyed said that they intend to pursue a hybrid cloud delivery model.

The study was conducted by Coleman Parkes Research on behalf of HP and comprised of 550 interviews among senior business and technology executives within enterprises and mid-market companies worldwide.