Between December 2014 and January 2015, Gatepoint Research invited selected IT, Finance and Operations executives to participate in a survey themed Cost Management Strategies for Cloud Services.
Survey participants represented firms from a wide range of industries including business & financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, telecom services, media, and utilities.
1. Summary Results • January 2015
Cost Management Strategies for Cloud Services
2. Summary Results • January 2015
Program Overview
Between December 2014 and January 2015, Gatepoint Research invited
selected IT, Finance and Operations executives to participate in a survey
themed Cost Management Strategies for Cloud Services.
Candidates were invited via email and 100 executives participated.
Management levels represented were predominantly senior decision
makers: 9% held the title CxO, 21% were VPs, 39% were Directors, and
31% were Managers.
Survey participants represented firms from a wide range of industries
including business & financial services, manufacturing, healthcare,
telecom services, media, and utilities.
Responders worked for large firms: 83% were in the Fortune 1000
and all firms had revenues greater than $500 million.
100% of responders participated voluntarily; none were engaged using
telemarketing.
3. Summary Results • January 2015
Observations and Conclusions
Survey responders see IT as a tool to deliver more service at lower costs (61%)
and a means to enable self-service (60%).
Cloud in all forms is widely used, mostly in a hybrid, public/private, hosted/on-
premise format. A mere 6% of survey participants use on-premise-only for their
IT environment and 97% have adopted or plan to adopt cloud at some level for
their IT.
Although cloud is widely used among responders, there is still lots of room for
growth: 69% report that less than a quarter of their IT workload is on cloud
today.
Currently, tracking cloud use is inconsistent: billing reports (42%) and network
monitoring reports (35%) are the primary methods of tracking consumption of all
cloud resources
The desire to improve cloud consumption/usage tracking is strong:
- 70% say it’s desirable or highly desirable
- 71% would use their ability to track all cloud consumption to improve their
IT forecasting.
- Top priority for tracking cloud consumption is at the business unit level
(73%).
15. Summary Results • January 2015
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