Survey: less worry about cloud security, but governance still a question mark

Managers and professionals are growing more comfortable with cloud computing for their enterprises, and security is less of a showstopper than it was just a couple of years ago. However, cloud in the enterprise is still ungoverned territory. IT leaders need to take the reigns in terms of centralizing services, brokerages, reducing wasted cloud spending, and promoting a DevOps culture.

These are some of the findings from RightScale's latest survey of the cloud landscape, covering 1,002 executives, managers and professionals from various industries. In this latest survey, cloud challenges declined across the board with the exception of governance/control, which remained flat, the survey's authors report. This year, expertise, security, and spend were all tied for the top challenge with 25 percent of respondents citing each as a significant challenge.

Concerns about security actually fell to 25 percent vs. 29 percent last year, the survey finds. Even among enterprise central IT teams, who typically have the most responsibility for security, there has been a significant decline in security concerns among this group over the last few years.