Hybrid Cloud to dominate Cloud computing landscape of 2017- Oracle

As per the recent report revealed by Oracle, the cloud computing landscape of 2017 will increasingly be dominated by platform and database services supporting hybrid infrastructures. The study, conducted by IDG Connect on behalf of Oracle, also finds that private cloud adoption is rapidly reaching maturity, with almost two-thirds (60%) of enterprises having reached intermediate or mature levels of adoption. Meanwhile, traditional barriers to private cloud adoption, such as concerns over security, are being joined by newer worries such as IT standardization and the ability to integrate with existing applications.

John Abel, EMEA Senior Director, Oracle, commented, "Our survey shows however, that as the hybrid cloud evolves into the core approach for businesses the platform grows in importance, providing as it must the ability for businesses to move from private to public cloud and back seamlessly and securely. 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."

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 a third (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 growing maturity of private cloud means that organizations have learned many lessons about how to deploy cloud successfully. 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%).