Private cloud remains a significant part of the hybrid cloud strategies which dominate the market, according to a report from Ensono.
Ensono’s “A Snapshot of the Cloud in 2021” report, which surveyed 500 cloud decision-makers across a range of firms in the US and UK, found 78 percent of respondents currently use the private cloud in their cloud strategy – compared to 51 percent running one public cloud and 45 percent on two or more public clouds.
This means that the hybrid cloud market should see significant growth in the years ahead.
The report said that businesses who choose hybrid cloud strategies see a range of benefits.
The report said that the hybrid cloud could generate huge cost savings and drive growth for an organisation. For DX, a leading independent logistics operator in the UK and Ireland, migrating some operations onto a highly available and scalable private cloud environment provided potential annual savings of over $165,000 – money that could be invested to fund future projects. This evolution formed part of a broader programme of infrastructure modernisation, providing DX with reliable IT primed for innovation and to support goals within the business.
It notes that as the hybrid cloud gathers steam, businesses see a key lasting role for private cloud. When Ensono asked respondents about their glorious five-year plan for private cloud, 88 per cent stated that they will continue to have a need for private cloud, and it meets their expectations – solidifying its place in hybrid and multi-cloud strategies for years to come.
Ensono Product Engineering Vice President Andri Sianipar said: “Private cloud is not part of the past for cloud – it’s an integral part of the future direction of the tech sector. The days of industry discussion being centred around public versus private cloud are long gone, with the market maturing towards increased adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.”
Companies were choosing private cloud-only deployments mostly for security reasons (80 percent). This was followed by 46 per cent stating better flexibility/customisation was their reason for sticking with private cloud, and a third highlighting the need to keep workloads closer to physical devices – suggesting control is an important factor for this group when adopting a cloud strategy.
Sianipar said: “The continued dominance of private cloud reflects the critical importance of businesses closely matching the right strategy to business need. For sectors like public sector and FSI with strict regulatory requirements in handling and location of data, the information security of private cloud continues to be an unparalleled asset.”
Ensono’s research also revealed the top private cloud vendors attracting business’ attention:
- 32 percent – Google Anthos
- 25 percent – unlisted vendor
- 20 percent – Azure Stack
- 17 percent – VMWare on Azure
- 16 percent – Azure Arc
- 13 per ent – VMWare on AWS
- seven percent – Containers on VMs, Tanzu on VMWare, AWS Edge/Snowball
Sianipar said: “Our research indicates the innovative ways businesses are utilising private cloud environments. The edge computing offering of major cloud providers is clearly capturing the attention of the market, and activity is only set to grow as businesses look to process data as close as possible to the end-user. Alongside this, the data points to the array of options available to help organisations link up all their cloud environments, with containers a particularly important growth area as firms look to rapidly scale up application testing and delivery in the cloud.”
