Figure 3: Overcoming the obstacles Top pain points of cloud adoption What are the challenges holding organizations back? Expanding operations in the cloud is not easy. The sheer complexity of managing the business and operational change that goes along with the cloud, 昀椀nding the right level of security to match your There are many reasons why migration itself can be dif昀椀cult and slow (Figure 3). operating environment, and aligning IT and business emerge as It’s challenging enough to navigate complex legacy systems; change business top challenges. These challenges keep organizations from rapidly and operating models; evolve architectures, applications and data; reskill your expanding cloud adoption and leveraging the Continuum. workforce; and comply with regulations. Then there’s cyber-risk. Cyber-security management is getting better all the time to the extent that cloud providers are much better at providing hardened security Complexity of business 42% than what’s achievable on-premises, but many organizations still worry about and operational charge lost or compromised data. And they are even more sensitive when it comes to migrating employee and customer data to the cloud. Security and 42% Compliance risk But there’s also widespread misunderstanding of the long-term value of being in the cloud. Some look at the cloud simply as a cheaper data center. Misalignment between 35% IT and business Others have the notion that leveraging cloud for next-generation technologies is too experimental and just not for them. Legacy infrastructure 34% challenges Data sovereignty 32% concerns/regulations Ever–ready for every opportunity 10