FY17 Q3 Steps to secure your journey to the public cloud
Barracuda • Steps to Secure Your Journey to the Public Cloud: Challenges, Misconceptions and Opportunities of Shared Responsibility
Public Cloud Adoption Continues to Soar
Percentage of organisations’ infrastructure
running in the public cloud
Currently
39.4%
In Two Years’ Time
55.59%
68.84%
In Five Years’ Time
What is clear from the outset is that organisations across EMEA are investing heavily in public
cloud projects. Respondents claimed nearly 35% of their infrastructure is currently in the
public cloud, and predicted this will rise to half in two years’ time and then to more than
three-fifths (62%) in five years. Those in the UK currently have the lowest proportion of their
IT in the cloud (29%) while those in Belgium and the Netherlands are most enthusiastic (41%)
Average number of public cloud service
providers respondents’ organisations are
currently using, split by respondent country
EMEA Total
2
3
Germany
Belgium/Netherlands
2
France
2
UK
2
Austria
2
The average number of cloud providers used across the region is two (rising to three in
Germany). Why are firms seeking to invest in multiple public cloud platforms? A combination
of factors, but mainly because they think different players have different strengths (55%), and
that it will increase security (44%) and help keep costs down (40%).
Given that organisations even in five years’ time will be running hybrid environments
delivered by multiple providers, it becomes increasingly important for them to partner with
vendor agnostic third-party security and other players in order to extract the maximum value
from projects.
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Barracuda • Steps to Secure Your Journey to the Public Cloud: Challenges, Misconceptions and Opportunities of Shared Responsibility
How do organisations leverage public cloud?
83%
Data storage
Data recovery
62%
Website/application hosting
58%
Data analytics
57%
Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) sytems
51%
44%
Application testing and development
Desktop virtualisation
Development/testing
40%
34%
What are are most organisations using the cloud for? A variety of purposes, but most popular
is data storage (77%) and data recovery (56%), followed by web and app hosting (54%), data
analytics (51%), and CRM systems (46%).
Do organisations use public cloud for internal-facing
or external-facing applications? Split by respondent country
EMEA total
UK
60%
38%
56%
39%
56%
Germany
France
Belgium/Netherlands
Austria
43%
65%
33%
64%
36%
57%
43%
We only or mostly run external facing applications in the public cloud
We only or mostly run internal facing applications in the public cloud
Three in five organisations said they mainly run external applications in the public cloud,
although a sizeable minority (38%) across EMEA said they ran internal-facing apps.
Respondents in France were the most likely (65%) to run external applications in the public
cloud, while those in Germany (43%) and Austria (43%) were most likely to use it for internal
apps.
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