Lauren Nelson, Forrester, sits with Stu Miniman & Keith Townsend for Commvault GO 2018 in Nashville, TN.
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https://siliconangle.com/2018/10/19/forrester-findings-reveal-enterprise-gap-in-successful-cloud-integrations-womenintech/
Hasty move to cloud computing trips up many enterprises, Forrester analyst finds
As increasing masses of data outpace traditional infrastructure capabilities, cloud computing has emerged as an oasis in the tumultuous landscape of digital transformation. The number of businesses leveraging the cloud is scaling up exponentially, with the market value of cloud services expected to reach $186.4 billion by the end of 2018, according to Gartner Inc.
Despite the fervor, new research suggests that the rush to modernize has fostered an ecosystem of enterprises employing “universal” solutions to serve their custom business needs but not employing cloud adaptability to its full potential. In a market where stagnation can quickly become decline, cloud experts are urging businesses to reappraise their efforts in order to achieve the cloud’s promised benefits.
“Organizations are starting to think, ‘How does my cloud strategy map to my larger organizational values?'” said Lauren Nelson (pictured), principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. “For a lot of organizations, it’s a step they’re doing this year, being more pragmatic on how they should approach cloud.”
With more than 10 years of experience advising hundreds of enterprises in their cloud strategy development, Nelson is offering her unique perspective to support organizations through the fits and starts of virtualization.
Nelson sat down with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Keith Townsend, principal at The CTO Advisor, during the recent Commvault GO event in Nashville, Tennessee. (* Disclosure below.)
This week, theCUBE spotlights Lauren Nelson in its Women in Tech feature.
The truth about cloud migration
The cloud zeitgeist encouraged many enterprises eager to enjoy the benefits of a cost-efficient, agile computing environment to keep pace with evolving market trends by quickly pushing forward with data migration efforts. This haste precluded the development of goals and use cases necessary to delivering positive cloud results, according to Nelson.
“Migrating an app to an infrastructure as a service environment is difficult,” Nelson said. “A lot of companies talking about cloud migration don’t recognize that. It’s this conversation: ‘If we hear one company doing it, then maybe that should be our entire cloud strategy.’”
For most enterprises, cloud migration as a data center replacement method is not the most effective option for storage and management, as the costs associated with that transference exceed its immediate returns. Transplanting an application from its original infrastructure, without adapting it in terms of customer experience, to an environment not built to handle it can even cause processes to suffer in performance.
Forrester’s research shows that while cloud migration overall is on the rise, the various inconsistencies in processes and the low quantity of applications being migrated tell a different story about the platform’s current enterprise efficacy, according to Nelson.
“Our August survey shows 69 percent of enterprises in North America and Europe are migrating workloads to the cloud,” she said. “If you then ask about how, their methods are all over the map; the number of total apps they’re moving is far less than what we’re made to believe.”
With migration proving more fraught for many legacy organizations than initially expected, an increasing number of companies are considering the “multicloud” option. “Multicloud includes private cloud and your on-prem data center for use in specific workloads,” Nelson explained. But she noted that it doesn’t make sense to have too much change at once or to force the economics.
Restrategizing from the data out
With both the results of their efforts and new options emerging, businesses still have many questions to answer in the retooling of their cloud strategies. Nearly all of these questions stem from the complexities presented by a business’s greatest strength and most susceptible resource, its data.
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Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Commvault GO 2018. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE was a paid media partner for the Commvault GO event. Neither Commvault Systems Inc., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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Lauren Nelson, Forrester, sits with Stu Miniman & Keith Townsend for Commvault GO 2018 in Nashville, TN.
#CommvaultGo #Commvault #theCUBE
https://siliconangle.com/2018/10/19/forrester-findings-reveal-enterprise-gap-in-successful-cloud-integrations-womenintech/
Hasty move to cloud computing trips up many enterprises, Forrester analyst finds
As increasing masses of data outpace traditional infrastructure capabilities, cloud computing has emerged as an oasis in the tumultuous landscape of digital transformation. The number of businesses leveraging the cloud is scaling up exponentially, with the market value of cloud services expected to reach $186.4 billion by the end of 2018, according to Gartner Inc.
Despite the fervor, new research suggests that the rush to modernize has fostered an ecosystem of enterprises employing “universal” solutions to serve their custom business needs but not employing cloud adaptability to its full potential. In a market where stagnation can quickly become decline, cloud experts are urging businesses to reappraise their efforts in order to achieve the cloud’s promised benefits.
“Organizations are starting to think, ‘How does my cloud strategy map to my larger organizational values?'” said Lauren Nelson (pictured), principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc. “For a lot of organizations, it’s a step they’re doing this year, being more pragmatic on how they should approach cloud.”
With more than 10 years of experience advising hundreds of enterprises in their cloud strategy development, Nelson is offering her unique perspective to support organizations through the fits and starts of virtualization.
Nelson sat down with Stu Miniman, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, and guest host Keith Townsend, principal at The CTO Advisor, during the recent Commvault GO event in Nashville, Tennessee. (* Disclosure below.)
This week, theCUBE spotlights Lauren Nelson in its Women in Tech feature.
The truth about cloud migration
The cloud zeitgeist encouraged many enterprises eager to enjoy the benefits of a cost-efficient, agile computing environment to keep pace with evolving market trends by quickly pushing forward with data migration efforts. This haste precluded the development of goals and use cases necessary to delivering positive cloud results, according to Nelson.
“Migrating an app to an infrastructure as a service environment is difficult,” Nelson said. “A lot of companies talking about cloud migration don’t recognize that. It’s this conversation: ‘If we hear one company doing it, then maybe that should be our entire cloud strategy.’”
For most enterprises, cloud migration as a data center replacement method is not the most effective option for storage and management, as the costs associated with that transference exceed its immediate returns. Transplanting an application from its original infrastructure, without adapting it in terms of customer experience, to an environment not built to handle it can even cause processes to suffer in performance.
Forrester’s research shows that while cloud migration overall is on the rise, the various inconsistencies in processes and the low quantity of applications being migrated tell a different story about the platform’s current enterprise efficacy, according to Nelson.
“Our August survey shows 69 percent of enterprises in North America and Europe are migrating workloads to the cloud,” she said. “If you then ask about how, their methods are all over the map; the number of total apps they’re moving is far less than what we’re made to believe.”
With migration proving more fraught for many legacy organizations than initially expected, an increasing number of companies are considering the “multicloud” option. “Multicloud includes private cloud and your on-prem data center for use in specific workloads,” Nelson explained. But she noted that it doesn’t make sense to have too much change at once or to force the economics.
Restrategizing from the data out
With both the results of their efforts and new options emerging, businesses still have many questions to answer in the retooling of their cloud strategies. Nearly all of these questions stem from the complexities presented by a business’s greatest strength and most susceptible resource, its data.
...
Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Commvault GO 2018. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE was a paid media partner for the Commvault GO event. Neither Commvault Systems Inc., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
