INDUSTRY REPORT
2022
State of Multicloud
A CIO's Guide to the Underlying Dynamics Fueling Digital Transformation & Multicloud Strategies
Our Lens on Leaders
Throughout this report we analyze the data by comparing “leaders” versus those “on par with the majority” versus “laggards.” We asked respondents to self-identify based on the question: “When it comes to leveraging new technologies to advance business goals, my organization is:” Viewing the data through this lens allows us to see what’s important for leaders and should perhaps be considered by their peers.

Contents
01: Sustainability
02: Labor Shortage
03: Multicloud Motivations
04: Application Modernization
05: Cloud Adoption
06: Container Adoption
07: Serverless Adoption
Report Highlights
78% of organizations overall—including 89% of leaders—recognize that environmental sustainability and climate resiliency is important.
45% of organizations overall—including 57% of leaders—are executing against a sustainability and climate resiliency strategy today.
Labor and skills shortage is the leading challenge for organizations aspiring to continuously assure application performance.
74% of organizations overall—and 88% of leaders—are implementing or exploring AIOps.
Lift-and-shift is the leading approach to application modernization; among leaders it ties with replatforming.
Overall guaranteeing availability continues to grow as the primary driver for multicloud, but for leaders it’s still all about leveraging different apps and services.
2022 sees a reversal of opinion: organizations are prioritizing business differentiation over no vendor lock-in.
60% of organizations are running production workloads in a public cloud; among leaders that jumps to 75%.
Only 15% of respondents have 3 or more clouds, down from 30% the previous year, largely due to a drop in private cloud.
For 65% of organizations containerization will play a strategic role within 18 months, up from 61% in 2021.
01: Sustainability
78% of organizations overall—and 89% of leaders—recognize that environmental sustainability and climate resiliency is important.
Overall, 78% of organizations recognize that environmental sustainability and climate resiliency is important, with 45% executing against a strategy and goals. Among leaders, these numbers jump up to 89% and 57% respectively.
It is difficult to ignore impact of climate change as increasingly severe weather patterns disrupt our daily lives more frequently. The pressure on businesses to operate in a more environmentally sustainable way is increasing across multiple stakeholders: consumers, investors, shareholders, board members, and governments. Consumers arguable play the most important role, their preferences shaping markets and governments. A recent study by IBM found that 80% of consumers indicate sustainability is important to them and 60% are willing to change their shopping habits to reduce environmental impact. Due to this pressure, 62% of executives consider having a sustainability strategy essential to be competitive in the future and another 22% think it will be a requirement.(Source: Rise of the Sustainable Enterprise)
Question: What is your IT organization’s environmental sustainability and climate resiliency strategy?
Overall: 2022

Leaders vs. Laggards: 2022

57% of leaders are executing against a sustainability & climate resiliency strategy.
The percentage of organizations that acknowledge the importance of sustainability but are still only exploring how to develop and execute on a strategy is fairly consistent across laggards (35%), those on par with the majority (34%), and leaders (32%). The differences come to light when looking at whether these types of organizations are executing against a strategy and goals.
Leaders vs. Laggards: 2022—Executing against an environmental sustainability and climate resiliency strategy.

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01: Sustainability
02: Labor Shortage
03: Multicloud Motivations
04: Application Modernization
05: Cloud Adoption
06: Container Adoption
07: Serverless Adoption