Enterprises Over-spending by More Than $8.75 Million on Cloud Services, Couchbase Research Finds
Despite Challenges, Enterprises Predict 58% of Total IT Spend Will be in Public Cloud by 2025 – and
The survey of 650 senior IT decision makers1 found:
- Cloud services are not meeting expectations, and are adding to complication and cost: More than one third (36%) of enterprises said cloud services adopted in the last three years had not met expectations, while 56% said past cloud decisions had made digital transformation projects more difficult in 2021, and 48% more expensive.
- Contributors to overspending: The factors adding to costs included not having enough insight into spend or ways to optimize costs; the need to improve security and compliance functionality; inflexible pricing plans that don't give enterprises what they need in a single package; management tools that don't give the control needed; data not being stored where needed to meet regulatory or performance requirements; and vendor lock-in, meaning enterprises cannot use the specific cloud infrastructure they want.
- Enterprises are struggling against service limitations: 61% of enterprises have had to restrict their digital transformation ambitions because of challenges with cloud services; while 58% have chosen cloud services that did not give the ability to scale the business to meet demand.
- Cloud momentum is unstoppable: 95% of enterprises said that increased movement of infrastructure to the cloud is "inevitable."
"There's no denying the impact of the cloud, from giving large enterprises increased scalability and agility, to giving smaller enterprises access to services and applications they could never implement in-house," said
Despite the costs and challenges they face, enterprises are optimistic about the cloud. Almost every respondent is confident that their cloud services are giving them the levels of security, availability, performance, cost-effectiveness, control, scalability and compliance they need.
This is matched by growing cloud spend. By 2025, enterprises want 58% of their IT spend to be in the public cloud and said that they are currently more than halfway (56%) towards meeting that goal. Their reasoning is clear. Asked specifically about databases-as-a-service (DBaaS), enterprises said that cloud services can offer better uptime SLAs than their in-house team, and that they can better budget if they switch to consumption-based pricing. This, in turn, would allow them to reallocate resources currently used to manage their database infrastructure to areas where it could be spent better.
Asked to identify their top concerns around new cloud infrastructure, security of data was identified by 43% of respondents, followed by managing data in the cloud (33%) and future-proofing to meet future digital needs (31%), while 30% are concerned about keeping costs under control in the future.
"If costs and concerns keep mounting, we will see more organizations struggling to meet their overall business ambitions," continued Mayuram. "The key to a lot of these concerns, and the additional costs enterprises are facing, is sprawl. The more control cloud customers have over their data, including where it is stored and how it is managed, the more confident they will be that it is secure, that their services are future-proofed, and that they have costs under control.
We know there's no putting the cloud genie back in the bottle, and nor should enterprises want to. Instead, we need to ensure it lives up to every expectation."
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1 Methodology: An online survey was conducted in February -
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