"We probably over pay and underutilize, it’s extremely challenging
for us. I deploy stuff and...rarely look at capacity again.
So, we probably have machines that are underutilized and
are being overcharged."
— IT Project Manager in the manufacturing industry
Laggards are also less adept at automation than their top-tier counterparts.
We spoke with a finance manager in the healthcare industry who lamented
that “most things at my company are manual, and that’s a lot of why we’re not
utilizing [cloud] the way we should to be more competitive.” Furthermore, the
bottom tier lacks control and oversight, and are not able to easily forecast
“what-if” scenarios. A high percentage don’t have reference architectures —
leaving them without a clear set of rules to help ensure cloud deployments
comply with enterprise standards.
Here are the most common worst
practices of the low achievers:
Automation of Cloud Usage
31 %
LAGGARDS
72 %
LEADERS
Automation of Cloud Infrastructure Deployment and Maintenance
35 %
LAGGARDS
LEADERS
59 %
Feeling of Having Control and Oversight
42 %
LAGGARDS
LEADERS
52 %
Forecasting "What If" Scenarios for Cloud Deployments
46 %
LAGGARDS
LEADERS
90 %
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