Can You Bring Multiple Platforms Together?

Beyond security, respondents see cloud management giving way to operational challenges, as 16 percent a lack of multi-platform integration as the most challenging aspect of cloud management, while another 10 percent cited lack of cross-platform visibility.

And that offers an opportunity for service providers, Nunn said.

"If you start moving out to an ecosystem of cloud providers … somebody's got to take the responsibility of integrating those clouds together so that you bring together either a set of business processes (or) applications under a portfolio," he added.