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never group , and government 33 %, education 31 %, and services 33 % leaders of the - within 5 years , group . These responses are all arguably due to concerns about the scarcity of skilled IT staff to implement and maintain their private cloud .
The telecommunications industry ranked the scarcity of IT staff skills similarly high , yet they are leading the transformation to software-defined datacentre . Currently an average of 52 % of an organisation ’ s datacentre servers are now virtualised .
The shift to software defined datacenters is slowest at largest organisations , with 10 % of those stating no plans to fully transform , and 29 % expecting it to take up to five years .
Unauthorised access top concern for private clouds Private cloud users listed unauthorised access to sensitive data as their top concern , with concern about staff security skills a very close second . The time and effort involved in implementation and maintenance also made the list . The majority of the concerns are related to security operations , including maintaining compliance , identity and access management , dealing with advanced threats , insufficient visibility , and consistent controls . New virtualisation technologies , such as containers , are putting additional pressure on the IT departments ’ resources and skill sets .
An average of 52 % of an organisation ’ s datacentre servers are now virtualised .
organisations are not monitoring Shadow IT usage , down from 5 % last year .
27 % respondents blocking Shadow IT IT departments are taking a variety of steps to secure Shadow services in use . Blocking access to unauthorised services is the top choice , but only 27 % of organisations are taking this action . Most appear to be striving to support the department ’ s choice of service with measures such as identity and access management , DLP and encryption , or working with the users to find an acceptable solution . Interesting to note , while 22 % have experienced a data breach with their cloud services , only 24 % are using DLP and encryption to protect the data , with almost no correlation between the two .
Only 4 % respondents have full softwaredefined datacentre In order to move to a hybrid private-public cloud architecture , the datacentre has to evolve to a highly-virtualised , cloud-based infrastructure . Very few organisations are there yet , with only 4 % reporting a fully software-defined datacentre . However , the majority 73 % expect to complete their transformation to software-defined datacentre within 24 months , while 20 % expect it to be complete within 5 years . Only 7 % indicate that they never plan to fully transform to software-defined datacentre .
The shift is happening slowest at the largest organisations , with 10 % of those stating no plans to fully transform , and 29 % expecting it to take up to five years . Government 19 % and utilities 14 % are the leaders of the - No ,
( Excerpted from Building Trust in a Cloudy Sky , The state of cloud adoption and security by Intel Security )
Raj Samani is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Intel Security for Europe , Middle East , Africa
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