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 |