1. 2014 STATE OF THE CLOUD REPORT
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Cloud Adoption Reaches Ubiquity
Public Cloud Adoption Nears 90%
on the Journey to Hybrid Cloud

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• Cloud Adoption Reaches Ubiquity
• Hybrid Cloud is the Strategy of Choice
• Enterprise Cloud Governance Lags Adoption
• Cloud Benefits Grow in 2014
• Cloud Security Concerns Abate while Compliance, Cost, Performance
Demand Attention
• Next-Generation IT Shapes Up: Cloud + DevOps + Self-
Service
• Cloud Wars Heat Up
• AWS Leads in Public Cloud, Interest Builds in Azure and Google
• VMware and OpenStack Battle for Lead in Private Cloud
2014 Findings

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• 74,500 people emailed from RightScale database
• 1068 responses
• 3.2% margin of error
• Respondents are not just RightScale users
• 303 (28%) are RightScale users
Methodology

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Company Size

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Industry

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Role of Respondents

8. Finding:
Cloud Adoption Reaches Ubiquity

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94% of Respondents Are Using Cloud
Running apps or Experimenting

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Cloud Maturity

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Enterprises are in Middle Stages of Adoption

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Enterprise Cloud Maturity 2014 vs. 2013
8%
6%
17%
18%
26%
29%
23%
25%
26%
22%
2013
2014
Enterprise Stage of Cloud Adoption
No plans Cloud Watchers Cloud Beginners Cloud Explorers Cloud Focused
Source: RightScale 2014 State of the Cloud Report

13. Finding:
Hybrid Cloud is the Strategy of Choice

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Enterprises Want Multi-Cloud

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Quicker Progress on Public Cloud

16. Finding:
Enterprise Cloud Governance
Lags Adoption

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Cloud Governance Lags Adoption

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Differing Views of Role of IT in Cloud

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BUs See Public Cloud as Top Priority

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Central IT Worries More About Security

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• Central IT sees IT having broader role in cloud than technical
staff in Bus
• Business Units see Public Cloud as higher priority
• Business Units see public cloud security as less of a
challenge
Tale of Two Worldviews

22. Finding:
Cloud Benefits Grow in 2014

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Workloads Expand with Maturity

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Cloud Workloads 2014 vs. 2013

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Benefits Grow with Cloud Maturity

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Cloud Benefits 2014 vs. 2013

27. Finding:
Security Concerns Abate while
Compliance, Cost, and Performance
Demand Attention

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Challenges Decrease with Cloud Maturity

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Cloud Challenges 2014 vs. 2013

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Security Concerns Decrease in 2014

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Top 5 Challenges Change with Maturity

32. Finding:
Next Generation IT Shapes Up:
Cloud + DevOps + Self-Service

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DevOps Adoption Up from 2013

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DevOps Adoption Grows with Cloud Maturity

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Chef Taking Lead in Configuration Management

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Enterprise Self-Service Expands and Improves
with Cloud Maturity

37. Finding:
AWS Leads in Public Cloud;
Interest Builds in Azure and Google

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Public Cloud Usage – All Respondents

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Public Cloud Usage - All Respondents
2014 vs. 2013

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Public Cloud Usage – Enterprise Respondents
(1000+ employees)

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Public Cloud Usage – SMB Respondents
(<1000 employees)

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Compare Top Public Clouds – All Respondents

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• AWS still dominates
• 4x share of nearest competitor
• RAX is second overall
• Largely on strength of SMB market
• Google & Azure IaaS gaining mindshare
• Azure IaaS gaining more interest in enterprise
• Google IaaS gaining more interest in SMB
Public Cloud Usage Takeaways

44. Finding:
VMware and OpenStack
Battle for Lead in Private Cloud

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Private Cloud Usage – All Respondents

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Private Cloud Usage - All Respondents
2014 vs. 2013

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Private Cloud Usage – Enterprise Respondents
(1000+ employees)

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Private Cloud Usage –SMB Respondents
(<1000 employees)

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Compare Private Clouds – All Respondents

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• VMware leading
• Many see vSphere/vCenter environments as private cloud
• Surprising # claim use of vCloud Director
• OpenStack a strong #2
• Gaining mindshare and interest – beyond even VMware
• Microsoft System Center
• #2 in Enterprise segment
Private Cloud Usage Takeaways

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All Cloud Usage – Enterprise Respondents
(1000+ employees)

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2014 State of the Cloud Report
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53. 2014 STATE OF THE CLOUD REPORT
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