Survey Points to Challenges with Managing Cloud Consumption

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Cruiser, a leading provider of a cloud analytics application, today announced the results of a Dimensional Research survey of nearly 200 professionals who attended the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Global Summit held April 18-19 in Chicago. The findings reveal that the top challenge with public cloud consumption is the ability to proactively manage usage and costs across the business.  The report reveals that nearly one third of organizations today are doing nothing to track, manage and allocate cloud consumption costs. 

Of those surveyed, 92% stated that they are currently using a public cloud and 95% indicated that public cloud usage will grow over the next twelve months. Additionally, the survey found that momentum is being driven by a number of factors including big data and business analytics, with development and testing services coming in a close second. The study also revealed:

• Cost allocation and reporting top actions needed for managing the public cloud
• Nearly one third of companies do not proactively manage cloud usage or spend
• 82% indicate reconciling cloud services bills with Finance as being difficult

"IT teams are under tremendous pressure to deliver cloud services as quickly as possible to the business," stated Deirdre Mahon, Cloud Cruiser's Chief Marketing Officer. "The reality is they can only move at the speed of finance. If business, IT, and finance stakeholders cannot view the same real-time dashboard showing exactly what cloud services are being consumed by whom, services will come to a screeching halt," added Mahon. "That will have a seriously negative impact on business performance and competitiveness."

"The survey results show that, despite significant investment in public cloud, IT continues to struggle with technologies that will help them analyze public cloud usage," states David Gehringer, Principal at Dimensional Research.  "IT requires a solution that can effectively manage and allocate public cloud use so they can have a fact-based conversation with the business that everyone can understand."

Detailed results of the survey can be found here.

Cloud Cruiser recently announced the release of Cloud Cruiser 16™, a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that provides a smart meter for today's multi-cloud environment. With Cloud Cruiser 16, in just a matter of minutes, customers can effortlessly optimize the delivery of cloud services to the business by metering usage by user, eliminating waste and driving business value.

For more information about Cloud Cruiser and hybrid cloud financial management strategies, follow Cloud Cruiser on Twitter at @CloudCruiserInc, or visit the company on LinkedIn. See Cloud Cruiser 16 in action in this video.

About Cloud Cruiser
Cloud Cruiser's application is a smart-meter for hybrid cloud that gives detailed insights into usage and spend, enabling the business to deliver the right services at the right time. By mapping metered usage and cost data with organizational information, customers get instant analytics to optimize cloud investments for business value. 

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