Apprehension about migrating IT Services to the Cloud: realities, report and recommendations.
Even if the benefits reaped from cloud computing
are more and more compelling, it is clear that, a set of bias and reluctances
continue to shadow this emerging technology.
The flexibility, agility, and scalability
that companies need in real-time to appropriate their end-to-end competitiveness and
digital transformation can be found using a set of cloud computing technologies
and services.
Connectikpeople.co, soon #Retinknow has captured
for you a new report, from MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of
government IT.
Titled “CloudControl: Movingto the Comfort Zone.” The study, underwritten by NetApp and Arrow, reveals that Federal agencies want to double their cloud use across infrastructure, platforms, and
applications but, about 89 percent of
Federal IT professionals still feel some apprehension about migrating to the
cloud.
According to this report, while only 44 percent of agencies have “mature”
data governance practices in the cloud, 56 percent are currently in the process
of implementing data stewardship or a more formal data governance program for
their cloud services or vendors.
65 percent of Federal IT professionals say that cloud makes data
management/stewardship easier, noting easier upgrades and configuration
management, stronger virtual staff support, faster data access, and system
monitoring as key benefits.
However 61percent of respondents note that their agencies do not have
quality, documented metadata. 62 percent do not have well-understood data integration,
50 percent have not defined/identified data owners, and 49 percent do not have
known systems of record.
Connectikpeople.co, soon #Retinknow can observe
that many agencies face roadblocks associated with managing cloud services and
vendors, citing remediation for data exceptions, data integration, and
collaboration/interoperability as their top challenges.
54 percent of respondents cite security as their top concern, and only one
in five feels that the security offered by their cloud vendors is completely
sufficient.
Based on these, realities Connectikpeople.co,
soon #Retinknow recommends inter alia:
establishment of enterprise-wide
governance practices; deployment of solutions that streamline data mobility and
stewardship across cloud models and Cloud consumers must develop data
management processes and role-based control mechanisms to ensure success.
