A survey of 100 IT decision-makers in companies with 500 or more employees conducted by NetEnrich found that 85 percent claimed either moderate or extensive production use of cloud infrastructure. What’s not surprising, and what I’ve been saying here, 80 percent stated that they have moved at least a quarter of all workloads to the public cloud.

But there is trouble in paradise. The survey also finds the top cloud computing issue is security (68 percent), followed by IT spend and cost overruns (59 percent), day-to-day maintenance (36 percent), and root-cause analysis and post-mortems (22 percent). Also, 48 percent claim that their IT organization is finding the cost of recruiting cloud professionals to solve the cloud problems to be an ongoing issue.

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