CompTIA recently released the results of its latest study, Fourth Annual Trends in Cloud Computing. According to the study, while a majority of organizations are utilizing cloud in any form, quite a few organizations have moved a step ahead by advantageously utilizing multiple cloud models in various permutations for optimizing gains and proficiencies.
Cloud computing is now an accepted component in the IT environment. An increasing number of organizations are depending on cloud computing for business processes. While 59 percent of organizations use cloud computing for storage, 48 and 44 percent of organizations use cloud computing for business continuity and disaster recovery respectively.
In a statement, Seth Robinson, director, technology analysis, market research at CompTIA, said, “Once companies hit a stage where they are using cloud systems as a standard part of IT architecture, they weigh the pros and cons of various providers and models and continually shift to achieve the optimal mix. A healthy percentage of companies are moving from one public cloud provider to another, moving from a public cloud provider to their own private cloud, or moving applications back on-premise.”
According to the CompTIA study, at least sixty percent of cloud users have incorporated additional transfers of infrastructure or applications after their original migration to the cloud. These include Public to Public, Public to Private and Public to On-Premise migrations. Organizations shift from one public cloud provider to another for reasons like protection, expenses, features, open standards, outages and customer assistance. Quite a few businesses tag their virtualized set of resources as a ‘Private cloud’. Several organizations shift back to an on-premise system mainly for protection. Organizations however have to deal with issues like acquisition, expense monitoring and policies while shifting to cloud computing.
Robinson said, “In the future, companies will have their architecture spread across multiple clouds along with on-premise systems, choosing the option that best suits their needs for a particular application. This is no different than a traditional data center with servers that are configured for different purposes, but the management challenges are much greater. As the industry moves toward a multi-cloud paradigm, there will be ample opportunity for IT channel firms to help manage the growing complexity.”