The rigor in data collection, the depth in data analysis and the accuracy in forward looking insights that Techaisle brings in its small business & midmarket research has extended to enterprise. Techaisle’s US Enterprise Cloud Adoption Trends provides an in-depth and definitive look into the state of cloud adoption within large businesses.
- Only 18% of US enterprises have mature cloud adoption and are optimizing usages; 36% have a cautious approach to cloud. Smaller size large enterprises have reached maturity stage whereas larger sized enterprises have ad hoc approach to cloud
- In 92% of US enterprises, IT has a voice on the Board and helps drive the direction of the business rather than business deciding IT needs
- Top IT challenge is implementing new strategic IT applications to improve organization’s competitiveness; 74% believe that investments in cloud increases their competitiveness
- Greatest benefit of cloud is the ability to launch new products and services
- 61% want seamless integration with on-premise systems
- For 65% of US enterprises, security and regulatory compliance is the biggest challenge in developing strategies for cloud adoption
- In 60% of enterprises data sovereignty and privacy are preventing acceleration of cloud
- 75% of US enterprises have adopted Hybrid cloud but the largest penetration growth is expected in the use of public cloud
- 74% are using Amazon AWS but Microsoft Azure is not far behind at 65%
- 20% of US enterprises use all three types of cloud deployment – private, public and hybrid but the future looks very different
The research deliverable covers several topics including:
- Top 10 Enterprise IT challenges & business issues
- Enterprise Cloud adoption maturity – ad hoc to mature
- Greatest benefits of using Cloud
- Factors driving cloud adoption strategy
- Key attributes of a good cloud solution
- Challenges in developing strategies for cloud adoption
- Factors preventing Enterprises from accelerating cloud adoption
- Current & Planned adoption of services, type of deployment & workloads
- Current & planned cloud applications
- Enterprise cloud best practices - hybrid cloud, hybrid IT
- Enterprise cloud security best practices
- Use of public cloud within enterprises
- Benefits of Public Cloud adoption
- Top drivers of Public Cloud adoption
- Key challenges in implementing public cloud
- Workloads being transferred to Public Cloud
- Key Industry segments using Public Cloud services to derive its benefits
- Types and brands of public Cloud platform being used - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM SoftLayer
- Comparative analysis of AWS, Azure, Google, SoftLayer
- Influencing the Cloud buyer, mapping the buyer’s journey
- Influencing the C-Suite
The Techaisle research contains a wealth of data that marketers can use to understand cloud adoption within the US enterprises and build IT buyer-centric marketing initiatives.
