INDUSTRY REPORT
2021
State of Multicloud
A CIO's Guide to the Underlying Dynamics Fueling Digital Transformation & Multicloud Strategies
Featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Businesswire, Virtual Intelligence Briefing, and more, the State of Multicloud report is a perennial analysis of the business and technical motivations driving the adoption of multicloud architecture.
The Report moves beyond the What of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes adoption—and inspects the Why.
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Report Higlights
Multicloud leaders aspire to leverage the right apps and services to differentiate their business, but in 2021 they value business leverage over the benefits of any one cloud.
In 2021 leaders prioritize launching new internal services, indicating progress on the digital transformation journey.
For 61% of organizations containerization will play a strategic role within 18 months, today it is already strategic for nearly 20%.
56% are using at least one container platform today, 79% of which are using commercial Kubernetes.
56% of those on their container/cloud native journey are running containers in production, but complexity at scale is hindering advanced use cases.
Optimization(25%)is the most important initiative for organizations adopting public cloud in the coming year, followed by advancing a multicloud strategy (21%).
30% of organizations are using 3 or more clouds today.
83% of organizations are using at least one cloud managed service today.
For 62% of organizations public cloud PaaS will play a strategic role for their business within 18 months.
Complexity at 38% is the leading barrier by far to edge computing becoming conventional.