SUSE has revealed that although the majority (96 per cent) of businesses would use a cloud solution for business-critical workloads, 91 per cent are concerned if they do take up cloud services, they will be locked into a vendor, which affects their decision to make the move.
The research questioned more than 100 decision makers in the UK and another 700 from the US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and the Nordics about their use of the cloud and how they intend to take up both private and public cloud services in future.
Some 88 per cent of UK respondents said they have implemented a private cloud service in their organisation and 94 per cent think IaaS is where the datacentre is heading.
“There is no question that private clouds are seen as the future for many enterprise workloads, including many that are considered to be business-critical,” said Mark Smith, senior product marketing manager of cloud solutions at SUSE.
However, when it comes to implementing OpenStack deployments, it would seem UK businesses are struggling. Almost half of all businesses questioned said their efforts to use OpenStack in their organisation had failed and 57 per cent said they found the process difficult.
Around 30 per cent of companies are planning to download and install OpenStack themselves rather than using a third party to make the process simpler and less time-intensive.
“The results speak very positively about the level of trust enterprises have in OpenStack, but understandably there are clear concerns among customers about how their cloud infrastructure should be integrated and managed," Smith added.
“With cost as a primary motivator for UK businesses to move to the cloud, an open source solution can play a key role in enabling organisations to implement a private cloud solution – reducing costs, driving innovation and agility, as well as providing freedom from vendor lock-in,” Danny Rowark, country manager, UK & Ireland at SUSE commented.
