Cloud Costs, Reliability, Performance are Common Problems

Are your cloud costs running over budget?   

Is the performance of the public cloud coming up short in some areas as well?  

Yet another large survey of IT professionals shows that you are not alone. 

Network World reports that in the past year 42% of over 1,000 IT professionals surveyed have migrated workloads from the cloud back to traditional data center infrastructure, while 47% report that their cloud costs have risen.

These factors have resulted in an increasing allocation of compute to traditional data center environments.  The vast majority (86%) of the tech pros surveyed still use dedicated servers in their organization with 45% of respondents anticipating their use of them to grow in the next five years.  A full third (34%) increased spend on dedicated infrastructure last year, which was substantial growth from the 26% and 24% reported in the same survey over the previous two years.  

If you’ve had pressure from the C-suite or your board to have greater utilization of the cloud than you’d prefer, you’re not alone. Non-tech executives continue to encourage decisions that their tech teams find to be too cloud-oriented, as 70% of survey respondents believe their executive leadership underestimates the need that a modern tech stack has for dedicated servers. 

The survey, underwritten by Liquid Web, dovetails with what we have found in our conversations with IT leaders here in Eastern Pennsylvania.  The cloud is frequently not the right venue for a great many workloads common among enterprises, government, and SMBs alike.  In addition to cost overruns uptime, performance, and control is frequently lacking in public cloud environments.

For more information on the difficulties that many organizations find in the cloud check out the Direct LTx executive report Cloud Challenges.  Subtitled “Are Cloud Providers Like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure the Right Financial and Operational Fit for Your Business?” this report can be obtained by clicking here.  Or email us at strategy@directLTX.com to have it sent to you directly.