Moving up the Value Chain What we can Learn from Experienced Cloud Usersresults of the 2016 scalar cloud study

We interviewed 211 senior level IT and business decision makers from Canadian headquartered organizations ranging in

size from 50 to 500+ employees.

We wanted to learn:

Here were the findings...

¡How prepared are Canadian organizations to migrate their business workloads to the cloud?¡What are the top concerns regarding moving workloads to the cloud?¡How is cloud adoption changing the role of IT?

59% of Canadian organizations have adopted cloud as an applications or workload

delivery model

CLOUD IS NOW MAINSTREAM

48% have no formal cloud

security policy in place

HOWEVER...

Security is no longer viewed as a barrier to cloud, but still remains the primary concern

#1

23% of respondents believe their

organizations are doing enough when it comes

to cloud security

ONLY

Both workloads and IT budgets for the cloud are expected to increase

over the next 12 to 36 months

What can you learn from Experienced cloud users?

Experience shows that planning, assessment, and design steps are most critical to a successful transition to cloud

of Experienced cloud users agree that a formal roadmap is required when migrating workloads

100%

Experienced cloud users understand the complexity of cloud transformation. They are

more likely to look to external expertise to assistwith cloud adoption than a Novice user

48%

Cloud benefits and business value become progressively more sophisticated

as cloud experience level increases

Experienced cloud users are significantly more likely to view IT as a driver of

strategy and innovation versus IT asa support function

What are the top cloud initiatives for

2017?

Adoption of IT security services

Transitioning more traditionally delivered applications to a public cloud

delivery model

Supporting production workloads with more investment in pubic cloud

infrastructure solutions

Implementation of new applicationsvia public cloud

Supporting production workloads with private on-prem cloud solutions

Here are our final recommendations...

¡Create strategic frameworks¡Adopt a continuous optimization approach in line with the Cloud Experience Model or similar framework¡View cloud security and cloud adoption as non-severable concepts¡Engage cloud-specific expertise¡Be agile and adaptive

To learn more about how Experiencedcloud users are making the transition to cloud,

or with help for your roadmap, visitscalar.ca/cloud-study-2016 to download the full report