Organizations look to cloud for infrastructure woes but not cost savings

About 44% of organizations move to the cloud to improve infrastructure and data resiliency measures, according to a INAP survey of 500 IT professionals with data center, server and cloud infrastructure responsibilities in the U.S. and Canada. Only 35% look to the cloud for cost savings. Companies operate with "on-premise footprints" and have workloads in colocation or cloud environments, but more than half of businesses use the cloud or dedicated hosting environments for operating IT infrastructure, according to the survey. Slightly more than one-third of respondents use colocation. Security, followed by easier system monitoring and management, were the top two concerns respondents have in choosing an infrastructure solution. Protecting IT infrastructure from cyberattacks is the top challenge for respondents in 2019, followed by migrating applications to the cloud.