Hybrid Pulls Ahead as Cloud Computing Reaches Maturity

Oracle Research Finds PaaS to Become Increasingly Critical to Future Hybrid Cloud Deployments

The cloud computing landscape of 2017 will increasingly be dominated by platform and database services supporting hybrid infrastructures, new research from Oracle reveals. Organizations are more likely to choose hybrid cloud when considering their next steps in cloud computing. Deploying more hybrid cloud services (36%) was selected ahead of private (32%) and public cloud (17%) services

Private cloud is rapidly reaching maturity, with almost two thirds (60%) of enterprises surveyed reporting intermediate or mature levels of adoption. This is expected to rise to 82% in 2017.

Significant concerns still surround private cloud adoption. These include data security (cited by 55% of respondents), integration with existing applications (47%), available skills (45%) and hardware costs (44%)

The most important building block of a successful private cloud infrastructure is having effective governance controls in place (cited by 34%); followed by standardization of IT (27%), winning the support of key decision makers (25%) and ensuring strong IT change management (17%)

Within private cloud, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) (68%) is currently viewed as most important ahead of Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) (61%) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) (57%). However, this will change over the next two years with DaaS (29%) becoming the most important form of private cloud, ahead of PaaS (26%) and SaaS (23%)

John Abel, EMEA Senior Director at Oracle, commented: “In this environment, Oracle’s proven ‘cloud ready’ platform proves hugely beneficial to customers, delivering a secure and reliable platform that removes integration headaches and provides customers the quickest route-to-value from the hybrid cloud.”

“While SaaS has traditionally ledenterprise migration to the cloud, other services such as Database- and Platform-as-a-Service are set to become more important over the next two years,” said Bob Johnson, Vice President and Principal Analyst, at IDG Connect. “Given this rapid development in cloud capability, it’s likely that 2017 will see widespread use of cloud-based platforms and tools – increasingly delivered over hybrid architectures – to develop and test transformational business applications.”