Survey shows that 30% of cloud computing expenditure has been wasted
Every year this year, the industry is looking for an annual cloud status report announced by RightScale, a cloud computing service provider. However, this research always contains profound insights into the psychology of cloud computing experts. Let's look at some key findings. This survey is based on a study conducted in January 2017 and was released a few days ago, bringing some new ideas to people.
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Growth in hybrid cloud adoption and decline in private cloud adoption: 85% of respondents had a multi cloud strategy, compared with 82% in January 2016. On the other hand, the utilization rate of private cloud dropped from 77% to 72%. This means that the focus is shifting to the public cloud.
Cloud computing is as wasteful as traditional IT, which is a surprising fact: 30% of cloud computing expenditure is estimated to be wasted by respondents. RightScale researchers say their waste may be 30% to 45% higher. How did this happen in the world or in the cloud, and so fast? According to the report of RightScale, although there are more and more reviews on cloud cost management, few can make full use of unused resources or choose low-cost cloud computing or regions.
IT control: The so-called citizen IT and shadow IT will not disappear. Use code/low code technology to enable business departments to build solutions. For all that, IT chose a public cloud provider (65% of respondents), and the IT team decided which applications to migrate to cloud computing (63% of respondents).
Most enterprise workloads are now in cloud computing. Research shows that 41% of workloads run in the public cloud and 38% run in the private cloud. In large enterprises, the number is slightly different, with 32% of workloads running in the public cloud and 43% in the private cloud.
After all, this is a multi cloud world: according to research, public cloud users run an average of 1.8 public clouds, while private cloud users use an average of 2.3 private clouds. These figures are a bit low.
This is a DevOps world: no matter people believe in DevOps, it will be here. Now 84% of large enterprises have accepted it. DevOps has expanded to BizDevOps to increase the business side portfolio. Now 30% of enterprises are using DevOps, compared with 21% a year ago.
The situation is getting better and better: Although talent shortage is still the biggest challenge facing IT, compared with a year ago, this is not a problem, and the number of respondents is worried about 32% to 25%. Security issues also declined slightly, with respondents' concerns falling from 29% to 25%. Mature cloud computing regards management cost as a key issue, while novices are more worried about security.
Docker is like a moving monster: Docker is more widely used, Kubernetes uses multipliers, Chef and Puppet are declining. Interestingly, 35% of respondents said they used AWS ECS (35%), Azure container service (11%) and Google Container Engine (8%) containers are used as service methods.
Microsoft Azure reduced AWS's market share: a year ago, due to the steady growth of AWS, AWS has stabilized from 20% to 34%, but AWS still leads by 57%.
This annual research report is not the only report, but it provides a good epitome of the changes in cloud computing every year.
