Most Corporate Data Remains Centralized and Non-Cloud: Forrester Report
The analysts at Forrester Consulting might have liked the bread-slicing machine, but they’re not impressed with most companies’ cloud data migrations. This study for Capital One finds that nearly three-quarters of companies have yet to move the most of their data to the cloud. The most common obstacle is unpredictable costs due to usage-based cloud pricing models (82%), followed closely by data quality (80%), cataloging (78%), understanding data (76%), and observability (74%). Old habits die hard: more than half (56%) say their data management is centralized, 19% say it’s decentralized, 15% say it’s federated, and 9% say it’s outsourced.