The word cloud associated with innovation triggers the plebiscite. At least within the companies: 92% of companies, in fact, the adoption of the cloud technologies and services to speed decisively the processes of innovation. The new research reveals the IDG Connect, carried out on behalf of Oracle between 450 C-level managers and decision makers in the field of IT, which also points out that 51% of organizations within two years will have reached full maturity in the private cloud, compared with 19 % of today.Another third will also find at an intermediate level. 73% of companies confirmed then that the cloud is support for the loyalty of existing customers, while 76% said that the as-a-Service solutions help to win new ones. When asked what areas of the business value they see the greatest benefits, 68% of the managers involved cited the ability to scale as needed, 64% integration with partners and suppliers, and 63% the ability to maintain the level of performance required.

But the barriers to cloud adoption remain, despite concerns and key considerations for this step you are now advanced than the dawn of these technologies. When it comes to hybrid cloud, the three main obstacles highlighted by the managers surveyed for the study relate to the management of multiple IT architectures (60%), the amplitude of the network bandwidth (57%) and the relationship with IT suppliers (52 %).Traditional concerns have been replaced by operational concerns, such as the difficulty of managing multiple IT architectures and make sure you have enough bandwidth.

In the case of private cloud, however, it is still to dominate data protection (54 %), followed by the hardware and licensing costs (45 %) and the challenges posed by virtualization and automation of functions and tasks (43 %).For businesses that are focusing on the private cloud security is a primary concern and an indicator that you are transferring enterprise workloads.