1) Do you know about the Government’s Cloud First policy?
• Yes
• No
2) Is your organisation using a public cloud for any area of your IT infrastructure?
• Yes
• No – If no, please answer questions 6-8
3) What percentage of your IT infrastructure has already been migrated to the public cloud?
• Less than 25%
• 25% – 50%
• 50% – 75%
• 75% – 100%
4) Which area(s) of your organisation’s IT infrastructure has/have been migrated (in part or in whole) to the public cloud? Select all that apply.
• Database(s)
• Application(s)
• Security
• Storage
• We have not migrated anything to the cloud
5) If you are not 100% cloud first, what is your timeline to migrate the rest of your infrastructure to the public cloud?
• I am 100% cloud
• 6 months or less
• 6-12 months
• 1-2 years
• 2+ years
• No, we don’t plan to move everything to the cloud
6) What barriers to public cloud adoption have you experienced? Select all that apply.
• Lack of skills needed to implement/manage
• Security/compliance concerns
• Budget constraints
• Inability to prove return on investment (ROI)
• Need to continue supporting old, legacy technology
• Vendor lock-in (with a cloud provider)
• Concerns over IT managing multi-vendor environments
7) How many monitoring and management tools are you currently using to gain visibility into your IT infrastructure?
• 1
• 2-3
• 4-5
• 6-7
• 8-9
• 10 or more
• Not sure
8) Are you able to use the same monitoring and management tools for on-premises infrastructure and cloud environments?
• Yes
• No
• Not sure
9) What are the biggest challenges you face when monitoring and managing your public cloud environment? Select all that apply.
• Lack of control and visibility into performance
• Uncertainty where date resides
• Protecting and securing the cloud environments
• Performance downtime
• Determining the most suitable workloads to move to the cloud
• Not fully understanding the benefits of the cloud
10) Are you seeing the expected ROI from public cloud adoption?
• Yes
• No
• Still can’t determine
