Industry Reports

When asked about progress against original drivers for moving to the cloud, more than half of all respondents said they had mostly or fully achieved: • enterprise acceleration • digital transformation • cost reduction, and • enterprise agility. Furthermore, 78% believed they had achieved cost savings using cloud versus their old data centers. 75% said infrastructure automation was a first-class executive-level metric in their organization to continuously monitor cloud cost and efficiency, and 63% insisted it was easy or very easy to view all cloud spend and accurately assign costs. Lastly, 67% said it was easy to provision cloud resources without having to be an expert. Had we ended the study using only the answers to questions #1-7, we would have been led to believe that cloud nirvana was near and all the world's cloud complexities had been solved. But that's when things took a turn toward the truth... Tag – You're It A clear measure of how well a company accurately tracks and assigns cloud costs is how well they employ "tagging" (metadata labels assigned to cloud resources to know exactly who provisioned what and why). Tagging also allows administrators to set policies around users or roles and access rights. For tagging to be effective, it needs to be done consistently. Tagging only part of the time is little more effective than rarely tagging because only occasionally tagging still forces people to hunt down information and degrades true cloud cost/efficiency visibility. Maybe things weren't all rainbow and unicorns in paradise? So, the first "real truth of the situation" started to appear when only 9% of respondents said they always employ tagging. 73% said they "sometimes used tagging." 4 CloudBolt Industry Insights Report: Hitting a Wall in a Multi-Cloud, Multi-Tool World

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