The Quest for Hybrid Cloud Brad Casemore Research Director, Datacenter Networks

© IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC Q. Which of the following best describes your belief about these Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) within the next 2 years from your use of public, private or hybrid cloud services? N=2,378 Note: Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding. Source: Sponsored Business Value Extension to CloudView Survey, IDC, 2014. © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC

© IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC Note: Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding. Source: 370 responses from 15 IDC Business Value Research studies from 2012 to 2015 covering cloud maturity levels, adoption of private cloud, implementation of private cloud and converged infrastructures in support of cloud, as well as 15 respondents from a specialized study of optimized/managed cloud maturity organizations for Cisco in December 2014. © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC

© IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC Defining Hybrid Cloud “Hybrid cloud is the consolidated coordination/management of multiple cloud services (onsite private cloud, dedicated hosted/offsite private cloud, and/or public cloud).” — IDC Cloud Deployment Taxonomy © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC

© IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC Q. Under which of the following definitions of “hybrid cloud”, has your organization adopted a hybrid cloud strategy? Q. Which of the following best describes your organization’s main concerns about cloud and are IMPORTANT INHIBITORS for your organization in considering services or technologies? Q. Please note the extent to which you agree with the following statements about your organization’s use of external cloud vendors (5-point scale, strongly agree to strongly disagree, top 2 box shown.) N=3,463 Source: CloudView Survey, IDC, 2014. © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC

© IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC Q. Under which of the following definitions of “hybrid cloud” has your organization adopted a hybrid cloud strategy? (Multiple responses allowed.) N=3,463. Source: CloudView Survey, IDC, 2014. © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC

The Quest for Hybrid Cloud 89.5% of respondents state “strong desire” for Hybrid Cloud IT operations teams need help to get where they want to go Adequate internal knowledge and use of important cloud best practices Standard configuration and provisioning templates for cloud workloads and infrastructure IT staff skills able to fully exploit cloud management and automation tools Ability to monitor, forecast and optimize server, storage and network resources dynamically Availability of IT headcount to support cloud Ability to use cloud to drive innovation, agility and competitive advantage Consistent business and IT governance to define management policies and SLAs IT staff able to effectively evaluate and negotiate public cloud contracts Processes to share and reuse templates and best practices Collaborative business and IT governance to define management policies Standardized ROI and business case tools to evaluate costs and benefits Ability to accurately define costs and implement usage-based chargeback mechanisms Effective use of automation, self-service and orchestration tools Consistent service level monitoring across public/private/hybrid clouds Unified service catalog and self-service provisioning ~ 50% skills gap Q5. Thinking about your organization's ability to manage its cloud environments efficiently, please indicate whether you currently have implemented the following. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% (Percentage of Respondents Having Implemented Each Task) Currently implemented Will implement by end of 2017 Beyond 2017 N=2,855 Source: IDC CloudView Survey, December 2014. © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC

© IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC Q. Please note the extent to which you agree with the following statements about your organization’s use of external cloud vendors (5-point scale, strongly agree to strongly disagree, top 2 box shown.) N=3,463 Source: CloudView Survey, IDC, 2014. © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC

© IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC Most Organizations Seek Flexibility in Workload Placement Source: Amazon AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Survey, IDC, November, 2014 The majority of respondents’ firms have moved compute and/or storage services out of AWS in the last 12 months. For all respondents, the primary reason was Price The secondary reason varied by firm size: Large & Small business: “…More Economical to host the applications on-premise” Mid-sized business: “Was not satisfied with service levels offered by AWS instances” Q 36 – Has your firm and/or organization moved Amazon AWS compute and/or storage services back on premise or to another service provider in the past 12 months? Q 37 - Why has your firm and/or organization moved AWS services back on premise or to another service provider in the past 12 months? Source: Amazon AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Survey, IDC, November, 2014 © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC

© IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC Q. Please note the extent to which you agree with the following statements about your organization’s use of external cloud vendors: “It is important for my organization to work with our major incumbent provider to carry forward our current operations into the cloud” (5-point scale, strongly agree to strongly disagree, top 2 box shown) N=3,463 Source: CloudView Survey, IDC, 2014. © IDC Visit us at IDC.com and follow us on Twitter: @IDC