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

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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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7. 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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