According to a survey of 100 IT managers, Cohesive Networks concluded that 18 percent of all organizations have more than half of their workloads in the cloud. What this means, about one-fifth of companies and organizations have been applying cloud-first principle to their new projects and applications.
With the advantages of cloud computing, they can offload their computing power and storage, and pay as much as the resources they used.
The number of companies that trust the cloud is increasing, and predicted to expected to replace on-premises systems.
"Enterprises are waiting to adapt existing applications to cloud environments until the end of the useful life of existing data center equipment," said the authors of the Cohesive study. The team estimated that the cloud-native development will double over the next few years.
In business perspective, projects can be developed faster when using the cloud. This advantage is because the cloud allows businesses to "further ahead in monetizing their application programming interfaces," the researchers state.
More than 84 percent of the IT managers surveyed said that moving to cloud native applications and systems has helped them to "increase revenue and reduce operating costs." And what's more, "almost as many (83%) say they are ahead of their peers when it comes to financial performance."
However, "the barriers to implementing a cloud-native strategy are formidable."
What this means. unless businesses were already part of the cloud right from the start, moving to cloud-native can be a difficult process. The greatest hurdle, cited by 70 percent of the IT executives, is in finding or cultivating the right skills to make the change possible.
It's concluded that at least 62 percent of IT executives surveyed reported difficulties in integrating cloud-native applications with legacy infrastructure. Another roadblock, which was cited by 58 percent, is existing contracts with software vendors.
And in terms of security, Cohesive's survey found that at least 60 percent of respondents only "somewhat" trust the security of their IaaS providers, and 30 percent have no trust at all.
