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Workload Awareness Is Vital for Effective Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Strategies An IDC Infobrief, sponsored by EMC | October 2014

Workload Awareness Is Vital

An IDC Infobrief, sponsored by EMC

for Effective Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Strategies

Study Goals For this report, IDC conducted a survey of large enterprises around the globe to explore public, private, and hybrid cloud IT adoption trends. A key focus of the research: evaluate worldwide enterprise IT cloud strategies and workload priorities. Respondents had enterprise-wide knowledge of cloud environments and represented a variety of industries.

Total Employees Worldwide 16% 32%

24%

Regions

Revenues 13%

15% 29%

36% 31%

28%

n 1000 to 4,999 n 5,000 to 14,999 n 15,000 to 29,000 n 30,000+

25% n US/Canada n EMEA n AP n LATAM

N = 638 Base = All Respondents Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

37% 14% n Under $2B n $2B to under $4B n Over $4B n Don’t Know

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93% of Large Enterprises Worldwide are Taking Cloud Seriously 36.1%

32.3%

Overall, how would you describe your organization’s current approach to cloud?

24.5%

22.0% 6.6%

Currently use/ in process of implementing private cloud

Evaluating but no formal decisions yet

Currently use/ in the process of implementing public cloud

N = 604 Base = All respondents that agreed with cloud definition provided in survey Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Multiple dichotomous table - total will not sum to 100%; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

Educating ourselves

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No interest in cloud at this time

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Business Agility is the Priority: 73% Expect Cloud to Improve IT’s Ability to Support the Business Will improve IT’s ability to support the business

73% 27%

Will have limited or no impact on IT’s ability to support the business

To what extent do you believe the use of cloud computing will improve IT’s ability to provide support for the business in the next two years? Please use a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 means “It will not improve IT’s ability at all” and 5 means “It will significantly improve IT’s ability.” N = 564 Base = Respondents indicated organization using or considering to implement cloud computing Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes Scale: 1-It will not improve IT’s ability at all 5-It will significantly improve IT’s ability Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

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Hybrid Cloud Becomes Dominant Strategy by 2015 23%

32%

n Private cloud n Public cloud

45%

n Non-cloud

2015

Overall, when you consider all of your organization’s production workloads, what percent do you expect will be deployed in the following environments by 2015?

N = 564 Base = Respondents indicated organization using or considering implementation of cloud computing Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

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Most Widely-Used Public Cloud Production Workloads Focus on Commerce, Mobility and Collaboration 19.7%

17.2%

Percentage of all cloud users expecting to deploy this type of workload into public cloud E-commerce/ customer/partner services and support

Mobile Applications and Device Management

16.8%

ERP including finance, HR and CRM/sales force automation

N = 564 Base = Respondents indicated organization using/plan to implement cloud computing Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

15.8%

14.9%

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Most Widely-Used Private Cloud Production Workloads Emphasize Large-Scale Data Volumes and Infrastructure Needs 42.9%

42.4%

42.2%

41.0%

Percentage of all cloud users expecting to deploy this type of workload into private cloud Content serving and archiving

Database, Big Data & Analytics

Virtual Desktop (VDI)


On-demand compute and storage IT resources

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40.8%

ERP including finance, HR and CRM/sales force automation

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90% of Cloud Strategies Still Maturing – Workload Awareness is Often Missing Optimized

Overall, using the maturity scale shown below, how would you describe your organization’s cloud strategy and operational environment today?

10%

Other

4%

The Top 10%: Optimized Cloud Characteristics

Ad hoc

12%

Managed

30%

Too soon to tell

13%

• C onsistent SLAs across hybrid public and private cloud architectures • U nified software defined management across compute, storage and network

13%

Repeatable

• W orkload awareness

Opportunistic

22%

• B road support for open source • R eadiness for container based application and workload management


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Use of “Workload Tiers” Indicates Mature Workload Awareness Does your organization classify workloads into priority tiers (e.g., Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3)?

Which of the following are considered primary characteristics of Tier 1 workloads?

70.8%

70.1% 56.8%

Don’t know No

31%

9%

47.4%

40.6%

Yes

60% N = 638 Base = All Respondents Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

Need for reliable, predictable performance

Confidential info protection, regulatory or security reqs

Revenueproducing workloads

Audit & change control requirements

1.6%

Scale of data managed and protected

Other

N = 384 Base = Respondents indicated organization classify workloads into priority Tiers Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Multiple dichotomous table total will not sum to 100%; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

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Workload Awareness: A Sign of Cloud Maturity Mature Cloud Users More Likely to Use Workload Tiers 81.0% Does your organization classify workloads into priority Tiers (eg. Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3)?

66.3% 68.9% 64.0% 58.5%

Optimized

Managed

Repeatable

Opportunistic


Ad hoc

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To soon to tell

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Workload-Aware Organizations Recognize Value of Open Technologies to Cloud Strategies 42.7%

51.7% 40.9%

21.3% Docker is important to cloud strategy

n No, do not designate Tiers n Yes, designate Tiers Openstack is important to cloud strategy


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Workload Awareness Links Cloud Strategies to Business SLAs 34.9% Which statement best describes your organization’s plans for supporting Tier 1 workloads in any cloud environment?

30.2% 12.5%

Equally likely to deploy onto private or public clouds if costs & SLAs are consistent

Only consider deploying Tier 1 workloads into private clouds

11.7%

Tier 1 workloads We do not plan to will be some of move any Tier 1 the last workloads workloads to cloud moved to any kind of cloud

N = 384 Base = Respondents indicated organization classify workloads into priority Tiers Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

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10.4% Preference to deploy Tier 1 workloads onto public clouds

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Workload Awareness Emphasizes Critical Role of Storage, Data Management, and Data Protection for Cloud 44.4% With respect to storage, which statement(s) best describe your cloud strategy?

39.4% 29.3%

37.7% 27.4%

26.2% 14.8%

20.7%

n Yes, designate tiers (N = 358) n D o not designate tiers (N = 164)

Data mgt, backup, Data confidentiality Concerned about data protection and & access control are cost of storage storage are top top priority issues in cloud and priority issues are working to optimize Base = Respondents indicated organization using/plan to implement cloud computing Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Multiple dichotomous table - total will not sum to 100%; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

Storage not part of cloud strategy

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Mature Organizations Recognize Data Management & Storage Vital to Cloud 47.5%

With respect to storage, which statement(s) best describe your cloud strategy?

28.4%

38.2% 27.9%

34.2%

36.9%

43.2% 34.2% n A d hoc/opportunistic (N = 190) n R epeatable/managed/ optimized (N =301)

Data mgt, backup, data protection and storage are top priority issues

Data confidentiality & access control are top priority issues

Concerned about cost of storage in cloud and are working to optimize

Base = Respondents indicated organization using/plan to implement cloud computing Notes: Managed by IDC’s Quantitative Research Group.; Data Not Weighted; Multiple dichotomous table - total will not sum to 100%; Use caution when interpreting small sample sizes. Source: EMC Cloud Maturity Survey, IDC, July, 2014

Focusing first on compute/apps but will focus on storage in next 12-18 months

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Effective Hybrid Cloud Management Requires Workload Awareness

Workload awareness = detailed understanding of these requirements for individual workloads: Performance

Data Protection

Security

Storage

Compliance

Automation

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