This statistic shows the main challenges and obstacles to organization's ability to take full advantage of public cloud resources in 2020. According to the survey, controlling cloud costs and data privacy and security challenges are the top public cloud challenges with 40 and 38 percent of respondents respectively.
What have been the biggest challenges or obstacles to your organization's ability to take full advantage of public cloud resources?
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Are involved in the purchase process for cloud computing and their organization has, or plans to have, at least one application, or a portion of their infrastructure, in the cloud. 95 percent of respondents are from the United States.
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IDG Research Services. (June 8, 2020). What have been the biggest challenges or obstacles to your organization's ability to take full advantage of public cloud resources? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 26, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127599/top-public-cloud-challenges/
IDG Research Services. "What have been the biggest challenges or obstacles to your organization's ability to take full advantage of public cloud resources?." Chart. June 8, 2020. Statista. Accessed April 26, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127599/top-public-cloud-challenges/
IDG Research Services. (2020). What have been the biggest challenges or obstacles to your organization's ability to take full advantage of public cloud resources?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 26, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127599/top-public-cloud-challenges/
IDG Research Services. "What Have Been The Biggest Challenges or Obstacles to Your Organization's Ability to Take Full Advantage of Public Cloud Resources?." Statista, Statista Inc., 8 Jun 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127599/top-public-cloud-challenges/
IDG Research Services, What have been the biggest challenges or obstacles to your organization's ability to take full advantage of public cloud resources? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127599/top-public-cloud-challenges/ (last visited April 26, 2025)
What have been the biggest challenges or obstacles to your organization's ability to take full advantage of public cloud resources? [Graph], IDG Research Services, June 8, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127599/top-public-cloud-challenges/
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