The document discusses how businesses are increasingly adopting public and private cloud services. It provides statistics showing that 58% of organizations currently use cloud services for small applications and workloads. The use of cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) is growing significantly and driving digital business innovation. The top challenges with public cloud include bandwidth costs, performance constraints, and cloud services going down. The document argues that adding flash memory to cloud infrastructure can enhance performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness by providing predictable performance, high throughput, and redundancy for critical workloads.

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How Flash Fits
into Your Cloud
An IDC Infographic, sponsored by SanDisk
Business Is Embracing Cloud…
According to IDC’s Cloudview 2016
benchmarking survey:
58%of organizations are
using public/private
cloud for small
applications/workloads
24%plan to adopt cloud within 12
months or are using public or
private cloud for 1-2 small
applications/workloads
10%a minority – say they
are not interested
And Cloud Infrastructure Use Is Rising
CLOUD IAAS AND PAAS
are growing, spurring digital business innovation
through next-generation applications.
Significant Adoption of PaaS and
IaaS Among US Firms
Use of Public Cloud PaaS Use of Public Cloud IaaS
Source: IDC CloudView 2016 Study, N=701, US firms
Survey was conducted among adopters and evaluators of cloud.
Cloud IaaS and PaaS Continue to
Expand as Workloads Grow
Worldwide Public Cloud IaaS
and PaaS Spending USD 32%of workloads run in Public
Cloud on average today*
67%of firms are increasing # of
applications/workloads
running in Public Cloud
Source: IDC WW Public Cloud Services Tracker December 2015
*Mean % of Workloads run in Public Cloud
Source: IDC CloudView 2016 Study, N=701, US firms
Workloads Are Increasing but
Challenges to Cloud Remain…
Top 3 Challenges in Public Cloud
37%
Bandwidth costs
were exorbitant
N=368. Source: Amazon AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Survey, IDC, November 2014
Q. What are the two leading issues or challenges your company had with AWS Compute and Storage services?
Why Cloud and Flash Fit Together
Flash Enhances Cloud Performance, Competitiveness, and Innovation…
…And flash also enables
digital transformation
BENEFITS OF FLASH...
✔ Predictable application performance,
quality of service, and sustained
data throughput
✔ Highly-reliable storage I/O for
critical workloads
✔ Better $/IOPS and $/Throughput/GB
than traditional storage
Flash is Optimal for Today’s
Cloud Workloads
Cloud architects designing infrastructure can capitalize on:
✔ Real-time data capture, processing, and analytics
✔ Reduction of network and storage infrastructure latency
✔ Consistent and predictable application and infrastructure performance
✔ Large-scale data processing of complex datasets
✔ Performance and capacity tiers which can scale independently
To learn more about the role of flash memory solutions in the datacenter,
download the IDC white paper,“Cloud Architects Choose Data Center Flash
to Power Industry's Largest Clouds,”sponsored by SanDisk.
44%
16%
24%
16% 17%
40%
15%
29%
• Use now
• 12 month plan
• No plan
• No interest
2013
IaaS
PaaS
$4B
$6B
$28B
$22B
2019
Performance
Availability
Cost
IaaS Compute Services Challenges
IaaS Storage Services Challenges
Adding flash memory to cloud infrastructure provides
an innovation foundation and platform
40%
Service has gone down
more than once
39%
Performance
constraints
31%
Ongoing compute costs
were exorbitant
43%
Performance
42%
Service has gone
down more than once
FLASH