RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud - Market Trends
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Cloud Adoption Reaches Ubiquity
Public Cloud Adoption Nears 90%
on the Journey to Hybrid Cloud
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• Cloud Adoption Reaches Ubiquity
• Hybrid Cloud is the Strategy of Choice
• Enterprise Cloud Governance Lags Adoption
• Cloud Benefits Grow in 2014
• Cloud Security Concerns Abate while Compliance, Cost, Performance
Demand Attention
• Next-Generation IT Shapes Up: Cloud + DevOps + Self-
Service
• Cloud Wars Heat Up
• AWS Leads in Public Cloud, Interest Builds in Azure and Google
• VMware and OpenStack Battle for Lead in Private Cloud
2014 Findings
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• 74,500 people emailed from RightScale database
• 1068 responses
• 3.2% margin of error
• Respondents are not just RightScale users
• 303 (28%) are RightScale users
Methodology
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Company Size
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Industry
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Role of Respondents
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Cloud Governance Lags Adoption
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Differing Views of Role of IT in Cloud
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BUs See Public Cloud as Top Priority
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Central IT Worries More About Security
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• Central IT sees IT having broader role in cloud than technical
staff in Bus
• Business Units see Public Cloud as higher priority
• Business Units see public cloud security as less of a
challenge
Tale of Two Worldviews
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Public Cloud Usage – All Respondents
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Public Cloud Usage - All Respondents
2014 vs. 2013
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Public Cloud Usage – Enterprise Respondents
(1000+ employees)
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Public Cloud Usage – SMB Respondents
(<1000 employees)
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Compare Top Public Clouds – All Respondents
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• AWS still dominates
• 4x share of nearest competitor
• RAX is second overall
• Largely on strength of SMB market
• Google & Azure IaaS gaining mindshare
• Azure IaaS gaining more interest in enterprise
• Google IaaS gaining more interest in SMB
Public Cloud Usage Takeaways
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Private Cloud Usage – All Respondents
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Private Cloud Usage - All Respondents
2014 vs. 2013
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Private Cloud Usage – Enterprise Respondents
(1000+ employees)
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Private Cloud Usage –SMB Respondents
(<1000 employees)
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Compare Private Clouds – All Respondents
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• VMware leading
• Many see vSphere/vCenter environments as private cloud
• Surprising # claim use of vCloud Director
• OpenStack a strong #2
• Gaining mindshare and interest – beyond even VMware
• Microsoft System Center
• #2 in Enterprise segment
Private Cloud Usage Takeaways
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All Cloud Usage – Enterprise Respondents
(1000+ employees)
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2014 State of the Cloud Report
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