Enterprises are moving quickly from an immature to a mature stage of private cloud. The vast majority will move to a mature stage over the next two years, according to Oracle’s research.
The key issue at stake is the business value that the cloud creates. Yet there are a number of barriers to adoption, and issues to be taken into account. Data security is the one that emerges top of the list, as in most such studies, but there are more nuanced issues involved.
The business value created by cloud comes from the new applications that enterprises can deploy, and the speed and flexibility with which those applications can be deployed. Instead of approaching IT with a request for a service, for example, in a cloud-enabled organisation business unit managers can deploy applications on the cloud infrastructure themselves, whether it is privately or publicly owned. And such deployments can often take little more than the time needed to configure the application, without being hampered by hardware and software provision and support issues.
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