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The Road Ahead: Three Years After Cloud First
Purpose
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Methodology
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Table of Contents
Respondent Profile 5
Executive Summary 9
Research Findings 11
Current State of Cloud Adoption 12Drivers of Cloud Adoption 19Challenges of Cloud Adoption 22Staffing Challenges 26Procuring the Cloud 30
Final Considerations 35
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Respondent Profile
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6%
13%
14%
21%
24%
18%
1%
1%
2%
Other
GS/GM-11
GS/GM-12
GS/GM-13
GS/GM-14
GS/GM-15
Colonel/Captain
General/Admiral
Senior Executive Service
39%
22%
20%
8%
7%
3%
None
1-5
6-20
21-50
51-200
Over 200
Most respondents are senior leaders
6
67%
of respondents are GS/GM-13
or above
60%
of respondents oversee at least
one report
Respondents work largely in operations, finance, and procurement
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15%
1%
3%
5%
7%
8%
9%
13%
13%
25%
Other
Legislative
Communications andtelecommunications
Facilities, fleet and real estate mgmt.
Human capital
Information technology
Engineering
Acquisitions and procurement
Finance
Operations
▶
8
Most Represented Agencies
Executive Summary
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Executive summary
10
Research Findings
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The Current State of Cloud Adoption
3 years of cloud mandates
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Cloud migration no simple task
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Of 20 cloud migration plans submitted
by agencies to the GAO in 2012…
Only 1 was complete…
11 plans failed to report
performance goals…
And 7 did not include cost
estimates.
GAO Report, GAO-12-756, “Information Technology Reform: Progress Made but Future Cloud Computing Efforts Should be Better Planned,” July 2012.
Managers not entirely familiar with cloud strategies
Don't know
9%
Not familiar 35%
Don't have a cloud strategy
13%
15
Familiar or very familiar
43%
▶
Managers uncertain about agency’s migration strategy
16
Building new cloud
environments 4%
Both 26%
Integrating new and legacy
systems 10%
Other 4%
Don’t know 58%
Migration to cloud still in early stages
49%
22% 19%
10%
10% or less 11-25% 26-50% 51% or more
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48%
16%
7%
10%
12%
23%
Don't know
We are not using any cloudenvironments
Community
Hybrid
Public
Private
Agencies moving mostly to private clouds
18
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19
Drivers of Cloud Adoption
37%
7%
8%
12%
12%
13%
24%
34%
Don't know
None of the above
Increased collaboration
Cloud First strategy
New business capabilities
Improved security
Data center consolidation
Cost savings
Costs, budget reductions driving cloud adoption
20
Security potentially most valuable aspect of cloud technology
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Other Responses: Increased efficiency: 2.02 Greater accessibility: 2.03
Improved collaboration: 2.04 Greater reliability: 2.06
Increased speed of innovation: 2.13
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Challenges to Cloud Adoption
Challenges to adoption have not changed, security remains most common issue
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51%
6%
9%
9%
17%
18%
20%
28%
41%
11%
7%
11%
15%
16%
24%
30% Privacy and security concerns
Current investments in legacy IT systems
Developing a cloud implementation strategy
Lack of a cloud implementation
strategy
Ongoing service costs
Lack of support from senior leadership
Vendor lock in Trouble developing adequate business case
None of the above
Don’t know Don’t know
None of the above
Privacy and security concerns
Current investments in legacy IT systems
Ongoing service costs
Lack of support from senior leadership
Email of least security concern in the cloud
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Agency performance data
Data analytics
Program/project data
Personal data (employee/patient/civilian
Financial data
Messaging
Customer relationship management
Development and testing
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
Grants
25
Staffing Challenges
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Agencies lack staff to execute cloud strategies
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Yes 32%
No 36%
Don't know 32%
26%
9%
17% 17%
30%
Don't know Other 1-5employees
6-10employees
11-20employees
Most IT departments must hire at least one new employee to execute their cloud strategy
27
31 percent of respondents believe their
agency needs to hire more employees to execute its cloud strategy
Managers feel significant investments in training are necessary
30%
8% 11%
1%
11%
40%
$25,001-$50,000
$10,001-$25,000
$1,001-$10,000
$1,000 orless
OtherDon'tknow
28
45 percent of respondents believe their agency
needs to invest in training to execute its cloud strategy
29
Procuring the Cloud
Agencies use variety of ways to measure ROI
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30
Total cost of ownership
Increased flexibility to
control spending
Speed of service delivery
Enhanced operational/ performance control
Enhanced capacity utilization
Dynamic usage
Access to business skills and capability
improvement
None of the above – 13%, Other – 7%;
Risk and compliance improvement
45% 43% 40% 40%
28% 26% 21% 20%
Leaders uncertain of impact of procurement process on cloud adoption
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Agree 20%
Strongly agree 15%
Strongly agree 15%
Agree 20%
Disagree 12%
Strongly disagree 4%
Don’t know 49%
Cloud brokerages: the solution to procurement woes?
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Managers mostly unfamiliar with cloud brokerage
16% 12%
10%
17%
22%
13%
18%
10%
58%
Speedprocurement
time
Reduce cloudsprawl
Increaseflexibility/
minimize CSPlock-in
Expandservicedelivery
capabilities
Increaseoperationalcapabilities
Better abilityto manage
vendorrelationships
and costs
Improvedability to
enforce org.security
policies &standards
Enable myagency to run
IT as abusiness
Don't know
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Final Considerations
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Final Considerations
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About GBC
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The Road Ahead: 3 Years After Cloud First