Challenges of the

A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CloudHealth Technologies surveyed 108 IT decision makers in the U.S. at �rms that are currently migrating or have migrated workloads to public cloud (IaaS). An independent research �rm found due diligence in the discovery and planning phases is critical to ensure a successful migration.

BEFORE:Discovery/Planning

DURING:Executing on Plan

AFTER:Evaluating Results

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said identifying best �t workloads for public cloud infrastructure was important or very important

90%

45%

Lessons Learned

46%

37%

COST was the biggest challenge during and after migration – both costs associated with migration as well as the unpredictability of cost post migration

PROCESS – many security policies were established before cloud and will need to be adjusted in order to streamline cloud projects

ORGANIZATIONAL READINESS – developers were overburdened with redesign e�orts and existing sta� did not have the skills sets to help

said #1 migration challenge is COST

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43%43%

37%37% said #2 migration challenge is GETTING SECURITY APPROVAL

58% found that costs to run workloads on a public cloud were higher than their pre-migration estimate

77% 77%

said that the unpredictability of costs was their biggest challenge after their migration

of organizations plan to invest in tools to increase performance visibility for their next migration

of organizations plan to increase education of costs, risk, and bene�ts associated with cloud usage

of organizations are currently migrating workloads to the public cloud

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