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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Online survey
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Multiple answers were possible.
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Top challenges/obstacles for organizations for using public cloud resources 2020
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 ** and ** percent of respondents respectively.
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