82% of companies using workloads in public clouds have created “unnecessary” cloud costs, reinforcing the fact that inefficient cloud operations are the biggest obstacle to realizing the full value of the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some reasons for the cloud sticker shock outlined in Virtana’s survey of 350 IT decision-makers are, in percentage terms, workload that exceeds the agreed capacity (41%), over provisioning of computing or scarcity resources, storage blocks that are no longer tied to a computing instance (34%), poor job scheduling (22%) and over-buying or unused reserved instances (18%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The survey also found that 68% of respondents attributed their inability to effectively manage cloud operations to their teams in silos, while 70% of respondents said limited collaboration impeded their ability to adapt quickly and increase business results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It highlights the lack of visibility in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment: 84% of respondents say they run workloads across multiple public clouds, 86% say they could not get a global overview of cloud costs within minutes, causing delays and inevitably reducing agility, and 71% of respondents say that limited visibility in the hybrid cloud environment limits their ability to maximize value, creates inefficiencies and wastes time.<\/p>\n\n\n