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Share of main barriers to cloud adoption for businesses in the United Kingdom 2015

What are/were your organization's five biggest barriers to adoption of cloud technologies?
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The data shows the responses of surveyed businesses to the question: 'What are/were your organization's five largest barriers to adoption of cloud technologies? ' in the UK in 2015. The most frequently cited barrier to cloud adoption (with 81% of respondents) was security or compliance concerns. The second biggest barrier cited was the need to continue supporting legacy technology with 68% of surveyed businesses.

Budget limitations 43
Convincing business decision makers of need/benefit 49
Lack of skills needed to implement/manage 25
Embracing the DevOps culture 16
Inability to prove ROI 31
Disruption to business/end user performance during implementation 36
Need to continue supporting old, legacy technology 68
Security/compliance concerns 81
Concerns over IT managing hetero/multi-vendor environments 36
Work required to move existing infrastructure 59
Other 5

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