Microsoft Survey Shows 72% View Cloud Usage Tracking And Cost Management As Essential To Managing Their Business

Ignite Survey Details Goals of IT Professionals Moving to Cloud

Cloud Cruiser, a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for hybrid cloud financial management, recently announced the results of a Dimensional Research survey of 279 IT professionals who attended the recent Microsoft Ignite 2015 event in Chicago. According to the survey findings in Managing the Business of Cloud, reducing costs and looking for IT efficiencies continue to be the top benefits companies seek with their migration to the cloud.

An overwhelming 92 percent of those surveyed stated that they are pursuing a cloud adoption strategy with the primary goals of improving IT efficiencies and reducing costs. 72 percent of respondents indicated that tracking cloud usage and costs is extremely or very important to their IT function. This applies to all cloud deployment models including private, 3rd party private, public and hybrid. Additionally, the pace of cloud adoption continues to be swift as more than one third of those surveyed have a quarter or more of all IT services in the cloud.

“This latest survey is representative of what we are seeing in the market with our partners and enterprise customers,” stated Deirdre Mahon, Chief Marketing Officer, Cloud Cruiser. “Once an organization gets serious about cloud, they quickly hit a wall in terms of tracking usage and gaining full control on forecasts – essentially delivering services with efficiency and agility. Cloud Cruiser addresses that pain across the broadest range of cloud services today.”

The Dimensional Research study also revealed that if respondents have access to consumption or cloud usage information across their entire enterprise, they would like to enable the following:

• 57% – Improve IT forecasting
• 39% – Compare costs across different cloud service platforms
• 37% – Implement showback / chargeback
• 34% – Expand on-demand / self-service access to the cloud
• 30% – Better match allocation vs. utilization

The annual Ignite event represents the largest gathering of IT professionals focused on support of their enterprise IT needs with evolving technology. Full survey results can be found at http://www.cloudcruiser.com/resource/survey-managing-business-cloud/. For more information, visit http://www.cloudcruiser.com/

About Cloud Cruiser
Cloud Cruiser’s enterprise software solution for hybrid cloud consumption-based management gives customers detailed insights into usage and costs, enabling IT to deliver the right services to the business at the right time. By combining metered data collection with organizational and financial data, customers optimize cloud investments for business value. Cloud Cruiser goes to market directly and indirectly though strategic partners including AWS, Cisco, HP, Microsoft and Rackspace.