Enterprises more confident with cloud than ever – but still concern over security issues

Another year, another study on cloud adoption – and if it’s surprising statistics you want, you’ve come to the wrong place. Yet this may be seen as a good thing. As the report released by NetEnrich shows, the numbers on infrastructure and public cloud usage for enterprise continues to tick over, while security remains vital and DevOps still has a long way to go to mass adoption. The research, which polled 100 IT decision makers in companies with 500 or more employees, found large enterprises in particular were ‘eagerly adopting cloud infrastructure, applications and services.’ More than two thirds (68%) said they were using cloud infrastructure today, with only 5% saying it wasn’t in their plans, while almost half (47%) reported ‘extensive’ public cloud production usage. In terms of cloud adoption models, the choices large organisations had made were refreshingly wide-ranging. Only one in five (18%) said they were strictly using infrastructure as a service (IaaS), with 45% in the ‘mostly IaaS and some PaaS’ (platform as a service) category. 37% said they used IaaS and PaaS easily, as well as dabbling in containers.