Moving Customers Further into the Cloud: Addressing Key Issues

Author(s): Ryan Smith, Paul Edwards

This report examines cloud adoption and current customer issues with administration, application and data integration, and service level agreements. 

 This report covers:

  • Adoption trends for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
  • Adoption trends by company size.
  • Key issues with administration of cloud services.
  • Key issues with application and data integration across cloud configurations.
  • Concerns with cloud service level agreements (SLAs). 

The aim is to help cloud marketers circumvent or mitigate these issues to forge stronger customer relationships with cloud adopters.