The Quest for Hybrid Cloud

The Quest for Hybrid CloudBrad Casemore

Research Director, Datacenter Networks

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N=2,378Note: Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding.Source: Sponsored Business Value Extension to CloudView Survey, IDC, 2014.


Note: Figures may not add to 100% due to rounding.Source: 370 responses from 15 IDC Business Value Research studies from 2012 to 2015 covering cloud maturity levels, adoption of private cloud, implementation of private cloud and converged infrastructures in support of cloud, as well as 15 respondents from a specialized study of optimized/managed cloud maturity organizations for Cisco in December 2014.


Defining Hybrid Cloud

“Hybrid cloud is the consolidated coordination/management of multiple cloud services (onsite private cloud, dedicated hosted/offsite private cloud, and/or public cloud).”

— IDC Cloud Deployment Taxonomy


N=3,463Source: CloudView Survey, IDC, 2014.


N=3,463.Source: CloudView Survey, IDC, 2014.


The Quest for Hybrid CloudIT operations teams need help to get where they want to go

Currently implemented Will implement by end of 2017 Beyond 2017

(Percentage of Respondents Having Implemented Each Task)

Adequate internal knowledge and use of important cloud best practices

Standard configuration and provisioning templates for cloud workloads and infrastructure

IT staff skills able to fully exploit cloud management and automation tools

Ability to monitor, forecast and optimize server, storage and network resources dynamically

Availability of IT headcount to support cloud

Ability to use cloud to drive innovation, agility and competitive advantage

Consistent business and IT governance to define management policies and SLAs

IT staff able to effectively evaluate and negotiate public cloud contracts

Processes to share and reuse templates and best practices

Collaborative business and IT governance to define management policies

Standardized ROI and business case tools to evaluate costs and benefits

Ability to accurately define costs and implement usage-based chargeback mechanisms

Effective use of automation, self-service and orchestration tools

Consistent service level monitoring across public/private/hybrid clouds

Unified service catalog and self-service provisioning

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

~ 50% skills gap

89.5% of respondents state “strong desire” for

Hybrid Cloud

N=2,855Source: IDC CloudView Survey, December 2014.




N=401Source: Amazon AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Survey, IDC, November, 2014

The majority of respondents’ firms have moved compute and/or storage services out of AWS in the last 12 months.

For all respondents, the primary reason was Price The secondary reason varied by firm size:

• Large & Small business: “…More Economical to host the applications on-premise”

• Mid-sized business: “Was not satisfied with service levels offered by AWS instances” N=207

Multiple dichotomous table - total will not sum to 100%Source: Amazon AWS Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Survey, IDC, November, 2014

Most Organizations Seek Flexibility in Workload Placement



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The Quest for Hybrid Cloud