The cloud is already used by more than half of companies

According to a study carried out by Cisco, more than half of the organizations consulted, specifically 56%, already deploy a fifth of their workloads in the cloud to support new applications and keep their increasingly digital businesses running.

• For the first time, agility and business performance outperform cost and network management such as main concerns of IT equipment.
  1. Developing more agile and scalable applications – which have a direct impact on business results – is seen by 42% of respondents as a key motivation to migrate to multiple public and private clouds.
• Simplicity and security are essential.
  1. 56% point to security as the top networking challenge they face when managing distributed and hybrid workloads.
  2. Management complexity ranks second, with 53% of respondents citing this challenge.
  3. Half of CloudOps respondents (49%) and 42% of NetOps professionals say that the security represents their primary motivation for using multiple clouds.

56% of companies already deploy a fifth of their workloads in the cloud to support new applications

• The most in-demand tools offer visibility and automation.
  1. 50% of IT teams rate the end-to-end visibility cas their top priority, while 48% claim multicloud SDN solutions.
  2. The following most sought after tools include orchestration and automation (46%), cloud direct network services (43%) and visibility of the entire technological environment (43%).

• Cloud takes off, but on-premises holds its own.
  1. Although cloud adoption continues apace, 50% of respondents say that the majority of their workloads are still deployed on-premises.
  2. Even two years from now, 38% still expect the majority of workloads to be deployed on-premises.
  3. To provide greater operational consistency and the best possible user experience, NetOps and CloudOps teams should consider management platforms that support a pervasive cloud operating model across the entire cloud/network stack.

• multicloud motivations: Agile development for enterprise applications (42%), security management (42%), better services and applications (41%), and increased business agility (40%) top the list of factors driving multi-use adoption. cloud.

“In this multi-cloud world, most environments will continue to be a mix of public cloud, private cloud, edge, and on-premises”aim Roberto Moral, Director of Architectures at Cisco Spain. “And each evolution introduces new management, performance and security considerations, with complexity being one of the biggest concerns for IT teams.”