Clive Longbottom,

Service Director, Quocirca Ltd

Coming if you’re ready or notb

How being prepared for the inevitability of the cloud makes a difference to your business

Bob Tarzey

Analyst and Director, Quocirca Ltd

April 18th 2013

© Quocirca 2013

New Scientist – March 2013

54% of people claim to never use cloud computing

95% of them actually do

Lost in the cloud

Formal (IT department) attitude to cloud-based services

3

Cloud “AVOIDERS”

Cloud “ENTHUSIASTS”

VERSUS

Source – Quocirca 2013 - Digital identities and the open business

Traditional on-premise

Co-locationManaged hosting

Infrastructure-as-a-service

(IaaS)

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS)

Software-as-a-service (SaaS)

Application software

Infrastructure software

Hypervisor

Hardware

Data centre

Provided by userMay be provided by eitherProvided by service provider

Services that can be

subscribed to direct by LoB

(informal)

Includes consumer

applications

Cloud based services are wide ranging and diverse – need to be specific

Issues ranked 1st, 2nd or 3rd

Source – Quocirca 2013 – unpublished cloud security report

Comparison of barriers to adoption reportedAvoiders v. enthusiasts – security is a concern for all

Issues ranked 1st

Comparison of barriers to adoption reportedAvoiders v. enthusiasts – security is a concern for all

Source – Quocirca 2013 – unpublished cloud security report

When considering using a new cloud service to what extent are the following security issues a concern to

you?

Source – Quocirca 2013 – unpublished cloud security report

Comparison of concerns about the secure use of cloud

Average importance where 5 = very important 1 =

unimportant

Importance of security technologies providing access to cloud based services

Source – Quocirca 2013 - Digital identities and the open business

IAM deployment status

Overall attitude to cloud-based services versus IAM deployment method

Source – Quocirca 2013 - Digital identities and the open business

IT spending priorities

Comparison of % spend on IT security with attitude to cloud

Source – Quocirca 2013 – unpublished cloud security report

What does cloud enablement deliver?

• Lower cost of ownership– Application test beds– Failover platforms

• More reliable application delivery• Flexible workloads via hybrid cloud

– Peak load handling– Unexpected success (or failure)

• Easy of access when dealing with external users

Top three issues when selecting partners to work with on IT service delivery

Source – Quocirca 2013 – (unpublished) mid-market IT report

What are your top five priorities for 2012?

Source – Quocirca 2013 – The year of APM

Corporate firewall

Server

Server

Server

Server

Server

Server

Server

Private infrastructure Public cloud infrastructure

Server

Server

Server

Server

Server

Server

Public cloud from CSP

Private cloud

Server

Server

Server

Server

Server

Server

Private cloud from CSP

Hybrid cloud

CSP = cloud service provider

Flexible work load management

Types of users being given access to business applications

58% open applications to

consumers and/or users

from customer organisations

UK 65%

Source – Quocirca 2013 - Digital identities and the open business

THANK YOU

www.quocirca.com

bob.tarzey@quocirca.com