According to HP, 77 percent of enterprise IT delivery is expected to be cloud-based in Asia Pacific by 2016. Out of this 38 per cent would be on private cloud, 22 per cent on managed cloud (private cloud managed by someone else) and 17 per cent on public cloud.
Traditional IT will remain a key delivery model accounting for 24 per cent share. HP stated that 59 per cent of the respondents in Asia Pacific cloud will help them lower costs, 58 per cent think it will drive agility, and 62 per cent of the respondents think it will help improve customer/citizen services. Currently, 46 per cent of the respondents are not running any return on investment analysis for their cloud initiatives. For those organisations that do have some form of measurement, 13 per cent stated that they only used time to delivery metrics, while 10 per cent measured their cloud implementations by calculating the cost benefits. Further, 59 per cent of respondents in Asia Pacific believe that cloud computing should evolve to an open platform.
According to respondents the primary barriers to cloud solution implementation turns out to be defining service level agreements (SLAs – 62 per cent), meeting regulation and governance (56 per cent), managing issues with data sovereignty (54 per cent) and identifying the right, strategic partner (42 per cent). In addition, 61 per cent of the companies surveyed have created a cloud sourcing strategy for the initial applications and workloads to be moved to the cloud.
For organisations with a cloud sourcing strategy, the most important applications to move to the cloud are customer relationship management (70 per cent), marketing (66 per cent), and storage and archival (63 per cent), with finance applications being the least likely to be transitioned.
Respondents in Asia Pacific rated security (68 per cent), highly specified SLAs (66 per cent) and the ability to handle enterprise-grade workloads (48 per cent) as the most important capabilities in an organisation?s public cloud usage with credit card (pay-as-you-go) based solutions ranked least important, at 43 per cent.
