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Enterprise users wary of moving mission-critical applications to the cloud – Unisys Poll |
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An online poll recently conducted by Unisys Corporation has revealed that enterprise users are ready to move a broad set of workloads to the cloud, although they remain wary of moving their most critical business-application workloads there. Answering the question "What parts of enterprise workloads would you choose to move to the cloud first?" 46 percent of the 120 respondents said that they would choose to lead with development/test and support workloads. Another 17 percent would move quality assurance and pre-production systems first. A further 22 percent of respondents identified disaster recovery – a vital but not mission-critical workload – as their prime candidate for deployment in the cloud. By contrast, 15 percent of respondents said that they would move core production workloads, such as enterprise requirements planning, to the cloud first, Unisys said.  "Even though the poll respondents clearly see the value of cloud computing, the results indicate that they remain reluctant to relinquish control of complex enterprise applications using sensitive information," said Colin Lacey, vice president, Solutions and Services, Unisys. He said that while clients believe that cloud computing can help improve cost management and operational efficiency, they are skeptical that the cloud infrastructure used by commodity providers can stand up to the stringent service levels that enterprise workloads require. “Plus, they are often concerned about entrusting those applications to a third party without assurance that the data could be kept secure." |
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