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concerns aren’t exclusive to the UK, last
year Angela Merkel spoke of Gaia-X to help
the EU avoid becoming over-reliant on US-
based cloud providers.
Finding #3: Operational and security
risks constrain wholesale adoption
of public cloud
Another aspect of risk that came through
the survey results is related to security and
operational risks to live systems. A total of
85.2% of those surveyed believe that their
organisation is reluctant to move workloads
to the cloud due to risk and security
concerns. As reported by the National Cyber
Security Centre, a significant number of
cyberattacks are from hostile nation states
and the survey results imply that many
organisations are concerned that traditional
applications are inherently not ready for
these emerging threats.
Hence, there remains a significant minority
that still will not consider public cloud for
their most secure and sensitive systems and
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A TOTAL OF 78%
OF RESPONDENTS
EXPRESSED A
FEAR OF VENDOR
LOCK-IN AND A
SIMILAR NUMBER
AGREED THAT THE
RISK OF ‘OVER
RELIANCE ON A
SOLE PROVIDER’
IS INHIBITING
THEIR CLOUD
ADOPTION.
to consider a variety of cloud offerings
(including private cloud and secure
cloud) that have been specifically
designed for these more sensitive and
critical environments.
Finding #4: Disproportionate focus
on cloud-native skills and capabilities
The fourth finding is generally well
publicised. A total of 78.3% of respondents
confirmed they lacked the skills and
resources such as DevOps and automation,
to build and operate cloud-native
applications in what Gartner refers to as
bimodal capability.
While this is necessary to get the best out
of hyperscale platforms, multi-cloud enables
organisations to carry forward their existing
skills in established technologies like
VMware, Red Hat and Cisco which remain
relevant for longer. And secondly, multi-
cloud enables organisations to consider
buying specialist SaaS solutions rather than
building their own cloud-native applications
– tapping into the skills and capabilities of
innovative software companies.
Finding #5: Clear need for more
commercial control and flexibility
Last but by no means least are the findings
around the affordability and budgeting
challenges that some public sector
organisations are experiencing. A total of
84.5% of respondents agree that cost/
affordability is the biggest impediment
to cloud adoption, with almost 80%
agreeing that ‘fear of runaway costs’ is
a notable hindrance. This supports the
concept of ‘cloud repatriation’, where
organisations bring unsuited workloads
back from the public cloud and demand for
tools like VMware CloudHealth which helps
organisations better understand the costs
they are incurring in the public cloud.
40% also ruled out public cloud for systems
that they need to run on-premises or in
Crown Hosting. This could imply that
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organisations feel constrained by the
hyperscale model of public cloud – whereas
a multi-cloud strategy would enable them
Moreover, 82.57% of those surveyed also
cited the misalignment of CAPEX and
OPEX budgets as an impediment of cloud
adoption. Public cloud services by their
nature are only suited to OPEX budgets.
Multi-cloud expands these options so that
customers can choose to mix dedicated
environments with shared environments so
that they can make best use of both their
CAPEX and OPEX budgets. n
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