ScienceLogic Survey Reveals Hidden Hang-Ups in Public Cloud Adoption

RESTON, VA--(Marketwired - Nov 23, 2015) - ScienceLogic, the leader in hybrid IT monitoring software, today announced the results of its Trends in Global Cloud Adoption survey. The company surveyed over 1,600 IT professionals to uncover public cloud adoption trends and understand how traditional IT infrastructure is changing. Despite the explosive growth of the public cloud, there are still major gaps surrounding its adoption and understanding.

Public cloud adoption is expected to continue to grow at a rapid pace, though concerns and lack of understanding still prevent adoption in some organizations.

• 62 percent of participants are already using at least one public cloud.
• 83 percent of organizations expect public cloud spend to increase in the next 12 months.
• Of the organizations choosing not to leverage public cloud architectures, about half cite unclear benefits and lack of knowledge. The rest blame security and privacy concerns, lack of business need, or simply don't know why.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are the most popular public cloud providers. 58 percent of organizations use AWS, and 43 percent use Azure. Google Cloud platform is a distant third, with 13 percent.

Organizations lack advanced visibility, monitoring and infrastructure control in their public cloud environments.

• A staggering 82 percent are unable to ensure optimum performance, health and availability of public cloud workloads due to lack of advanced visibility into the public cloud infrastructure.
• 46 percent of participants acknowledge that they do not, or don't know how, to proactively monitor their public cloud workloads.
• Over 75 percent admit that shadow IT and cloud sprawl is happening within their organizations, whether IT teams like it or not.
• 65 percent feel that IT has less control over the infrastructure in their public cloud environments.

Cloud challenges dramatically impact the bottom line for many organizations.

• On average, organizations lose about $3.9 million, or about $12,200 per minute, annually due to network outages.
• 50 percent of organizations have experienced at least one complete network outage in the past 12 months. Of those, 27 percent experienced over two hours of down time per event.
• Network failures are the source of the majority of reported outages, with 26 percent citing network device failures, 24 percent citing circuit failures and 18 percent citing network configuration errors.

"These results illustrate that cloud adoption isn't just a technology fad," said Dave Link, ScienceLogic CEO. "As hybrid IT and multicloud usage becomes mainstream for organizations, so does the need to simplify workload visibility and management for IT teams. Without this deep visibility of dependencies, organizations risk losing millions per year due to network outages that could have been prevented or shortened with the use of monitoring tools."

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About the Survey
The survey was commissioned and produced by ScienceLogic, conducted online between Sept. 22 and Oct. 2, 2015. The survey polled over 1,600 IT professionals across the globe.

About ScienceLogic
ScienceLogic is the global leader in hybrid IT monitoring for the network of everything. Over 20,000 global service providers, enterprises, and government organizations rely on ScienceLogic to significantly enhance IT efficiency, optimize operations, and ensure business continuity. ScienceLogic is the first monitoring solution to provide a comprehensive view of all IT components through a single pane of glass, whether they reside in a public cloud environment or on premises. With over 1,500 dynamic management apps and custom dashboarding capabilities, we deliver the scale, resiliency, and automation needed to simplify the constantly evolving task of managing IT resources, services, and applications.