However, as organizations migrate workloads to different cloud platforms, visibility and control into cloud environments becomes difficult to achieve, often leading to unforeseen costs – a key challenge for 81 per cent of respondents. Without necessary insights to evaluate performance and enforce remedial measures for issues, the efficiency of cloud becomes hard to manage. This is the case for over half of respondents (57 per cent) who say cloud has resulted in unanticipated costs, and over a third of respondents (35 per cent) who admit they are wasting IT spend due to the inefficient use of cloud platforms.
“The greater operational efficiency and flexibility that cloud promises can grant organizations opportunities to unlock new performance capabilities and help cut costs,” Leigh Plumley, Chief Revenue Officer at Aptum, explains. “But most businesses don’t have the in-house expertise to effectively specialize and manage a range of environments and stay current with the rate of change in technologies.”
Plumley continues: “A cloud partner can help organizations harness the power of cloud to deliver greater efficiencies. Partners like Aptum will provide a holistic approach encompassing best-practice architecture, security, resilience and cloud-connectivity. For businesses to understand the true total cost of ownership and deliver maximum value from their cloud investments, it’s essential to consider all these components of cloud architectures.”
“Organizations increasingly find that the journey to cloud is not always a straight path. Cloud adoption comes with a learning curve and it is often difficult to address these challenges with existing internal IT resources,” states Philbert Shih, Managing Director at Structure Research. “This has created healthy demand for MSPs and infrastructure service providers to help manage and optimize cloud usage on behalf of mid-tier and large enterprise organizations. Service providers have established economies of expertise through repeated trials and operational scale. And they are able to package all this know-how into a consumable service that end users can benefit from on day one.”
The data suggests that cloud deployments without expert guidance from a Managed Service Partner (MSP) can increase associated costs if cloud optimization is not a fundamental principle from the start. Taking a holistic approach to cloud infrastructures, where visibility and control are embedded from design, can ensure costs are optimized and the service runs at maximum efficiency.
The full findings from part 3 of the Cloud Impact Study, A Bright Forecast on Cloud, can be found here:
For part one of the report, Bridging the Cloud Gap, please visit: https://aptum.com/cloud-hub/cis-part-1/.
https://aptum.com/cloud-hub/cis-part-2/.
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