Velostrata,
a leader in accelerated cloud migration and mobility, today announced the
results of a research study conducted by Dimensional
Research, finding almost half of all cloud migration projects are
over budget and past deadline. Within the report, the value and benefits of the
cloud are well documented, with research finding nearly every participating
company migrating applications to the cloud. However, most of those surveyed
shared that initial migration projects were more difficult than expected, with
some failing entirely. Nearly 75% of participants stated migration projects are
taking a year or longer, and a majority reported migration projects are running
late and over budget.
"The migration of our applications to the
Cloud was proving a considerable challenge - a lengthy and costly process,"
said Paul Tucker, Head of Data Centre Closure Project at the Department for
Education in the United Kingdom, a Velostrata customer. "We needed something
that was quicker, easily repeatable, created minimal system downtime and
provided assurance to business users that all data would be migrated.
Velostrata has proven to be that platform, and as a result we have
significantly accelerated our cloud migration journey, and with no disruption
to vital operational services where we have used Velostrata."
The survey goes into more detail on the
specific challenges that organizations are most likely to encounter during
their cloud migrations, and reveals that organizations should expect to face
not one, but multiple challenges throughout, as 95% of respondents reported. Of
those multiple challenges, those most commonly cited were extensive
troubleshooting, security challenges, slow data migrations, migration agents,
cutover complexity, and application downtime rounding out the top challenges
organizations are facing.
"This study, along with feedback from our
customer base, shows the importance of minimal downtime, zero data loss and
simplicity when it comes to cloud migration," said Issy Ben-Shaul, co-founder
and CEO of Velostrata. "To achieve this, better, more complete cloud migration
solutions are needed, and, as our customers and survey respondents show, a
complete cloud migration solution includes built-in testing, automation,
rollback, mass migration, and WAN optimizations, so as to combat the challenges
companies are facing today. Together, we can eliminate cloud migration project
complexities, delays, and cost overruns."
Additional key findings from the report
included:
- Cloud migration on the rise: 96% of participants are currently migrating applications to the cloud,
with 4% already completing their migration.
- Over half of all projects
delayed and over budget: 57% of application projects
take longer to complete than planned, and nearly half exceed the application
migration project budget.
- Projects more difficult than
expected: 62% of initial migration projects are more
difficult than expected (or fail outright), with 56% of respondants claiming a
lack of expertise and/or competing IT projects as an underlying issue.
- Long-lead projects an
industry norm: 73% expect the application migration
project to take a year or longer.
- Partnerships on the rise: Over 50% of customers are relying on partners for cloud migrations,
with 89% reporting satisfaction at partner's performance.
"The primary goal of our research was to
capture hard data on the status of application migration projects while
documenting key objectives, challenges and solution requirements," said David
Gehringer, principal at Dimensional Research. "Through gathering this data, we
uncovered some real challenges many cloud migration projects face, as well as
primary goals and desires of those currently in the migration process."
About
the Study
Dimensional Research conducted this study
during August and September of 2017. A total of 208 IT professionals responded
to the online survey representing companies of different sizes and varied
industries. Findings in their entirety can be found here.