BLUE BELL, Pa., Aug. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent survey
of 200 U.S. IT and business executives by Unisys Corporation (NYSE:
UIS) shows that CIOs are the C-suite executives most intensively
advocating and driving migration of their organizations' IT
resources to the cloud. The study indicates that reducing costs and
gaining faster access to computing capacity are the CIOs' primary
motivations.
In addition, securing the cloud is the respondents' primary
management concern.
Seventy-two (72) percent of the survey respondents say that
their organizations' CIO is spearheading movement to the cloud. The
respondents far less frequently cite the CEO (6 percent), board of
directors (4 percent) and CFO (3 percent) as playing that role.
The following are the factors that respondents cite as the
primary motivators for cloud migration:
- Cost reduction/transforming capital expenses to operating
expenses: 63 percent
- Enabling computing capacity on demand: 62 percent
- Freeing IT staff to perform more high-value work: 51
percent
- Changing the perception of IT from cost center to competitive
advantage: 33 percent.
Steady Movement to Cloud, but Security Concerns
Persist
The survey shows that the respondents' organizations are moving
steadily to realize the value they anticipate from the cloud: 67
percent see at least half of their IT resources in the cloud within
the next two years, while 44 percent see more than 75 percent
residing there within that time.
Forty-two (42) percent of survey respondents view security as
the greatest cloud-management issue their organizations face. Their
response shows that concern about adequate cloud security – which
executives have expressed in many earlier studies – remains an
issue more than a decade after cloud computing gained widespread
recognition as a major platform for delivery of IT services.
To a lesser extent, the respondents foresee cloud management
giving rise to operational challenges as well – especially lack of
integration among multiple platforms (16 percent) and lack of
cross-platform visibility (10 percent).
"This study shows that far-sighted CIOs have a clear view of the
competitive, operational and economic benefits of cloud computing,
and are taking energetic action to realize them for their
organizations," said Steve Nunn,
vice president, Cloud and Infrastructure Services, Unisys. "At the
same time, those decision-makers are clear-eyed about the need to
secure both existing IT and new cloud resources in order to protect
vital business assets."
Unisys delivers a range of cloud and infrastructure services
that enable clients to transition their IT environment smoothly
from hardware-heavy data centers to secure, software defined
enterprises capitalizing on cloud-enabled solutions for their most
crucial business computing tasks. Unisys Stealth®
provides an extra layer of security for both public and private
clouds, using identity-based micro-segmentation techniques and
encryption to help organizations mitigate attacks and hacker
incidents by rendering devices, data and end users undetectable on
networks.
About the Research
Gatepoint Research conducted the survey in the United States on Unisys' behalf in
February and March, 2016. The results are based on responses from
203 IT and business executives.
Click here to learn more about the survey results.
About Unisys
Unisys is a global information technology company that works
with many of the world's largest companies and government
organizations to solve their most pressing IT and business
challenges. Unisys specializes in providing integrated,
leading-edge solutions to clients in the government, financial
services and commercial markets. With more than 20,000 employees
serving clients around the world, Unisys offerings include cloud
and infrastructure services, application services, security
solutions, and high-end server technology. For more information,
visit www.unisys.com.
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