64% IT Decision-makers Believe Security & Compliance A Top Cloud Challenge: Report
A report on Thursday revealed 64 per cent of IT decision-makers continued to see security and compliance as the top cloud operations challenge, followed by cost management, which was cited as the challenge by 60 per cent respondents.
The report was released under NetApp's 2023 State of CloudOps annual survey that explored the current state of CloudOps and IT decision makers’ perspectives on organisations' productive working environment.
The report said, only 33 per cent of its executives are “very confident” in their ability to operate in a public cloud environment against 21 per cent last year marking an increase this year.
Commenting on the report, Puneet Gupta, Vice President & Managing Director, India/SAARC, NetApp said, “Cloud operations is critical to realising the benefits of cloud for infrastructure and applications. This research demonstrates that although organisations face challenges in their cloud operations, they also recognise the importance of investments in areas including automation and FinOps to overcome those challenges”.
The survey further revealed that 82 per cent of respondents believed that cloud automation is critical for optimising cloud operations and ROI. It also underlined that the enterprises team are embracing FinOps and the biggest FinOps challenges include reducing cloud costs by 50 per cent and forecasting cloud spend by 47 per cent.
