Growing interest in the Hybrid Cloud

NetApp presented the results of his first field research on the adoption of cloud in Europe. The responses of 750 CIOs and IT managers ...

NetApp presented the results of his first field research on the adoption of cloud in Europe. The responses of 750 CIOs and IT managers have identified the more widely adopted in the hybrid cloud paradigm. More than half of respondents have confirmed the use of a combination of public and private cloud.

In addition, more than half have indicated security as the main reason for the adoption of the cloud, which shows that trust in cloud providers continues to increase. Storage and backup are classified as the main use cases for cloud in all countries surveyed. Let's see the results.

• Clear preference for Hybrid Cloud: Respondents prefer undoubtedly the hybrid cloud. However, they rely on different partners and local service providers are the preferred partner for the hybrid cloud. Other options such as hyperscaler (18%) and the largest cloud service providers and global systems integrators (17%) are less used. Only 3% of respondents say they do not use any cloud service.

• The Cloud - Safety combination: Security and Cloud go well together: More than half of the panel of respondents, 56% said that security is among the main motivation in adopting the cloud and is among the top three reasons for the adoption cloud. And 'the proof, says NetApp, which entrust their data to the cloud provider is not perceived as a security risk ..

• Storage and backup: Storage and backup are highlighted be the main workloads move into the cloud, but not only. Added to these are the file storage, analytics, disaster recovery and SaaS. Document control is the least popular of the workloads to the cloud.

• The challenge of the regulations: The regulation of data remains a challenge. While many respondents are sure to have a degree of knowledge "sufficient", "good" or "total" of the General Data Protection Regulation which will enter into force on 25 May 2018, a group of nearly 10% admit to "not know that cos 'it is the GDPR ".

"Companies need to be able to choose which allocate workloads to the cloud and what partners are best for moving data across a hybrid scenario. They need to have visibility on the performance costs and positioning data to make business decisions and consistent regulatory throughout the lifecycle of the data. NetApp has solid solutions and strategies to achieve this, " commented the significant search results Martin Warren, Cloud solutions Marketing Manager EMEA at NetApp.

Moreover, the company noted, are those of the survey results that confirm the architectural vision and the NetApp product strategy with its Data Fabric has set itself the objective of maximizing the value of data on the cloud, whether the companies that use storage products have an on-premise iT environment designed for cloud capabilities, whether they are already using the hybrid cloud, or you are completely entrusted to public cloud infrastructure.