Flexera released
the findings from the Flexera 2021 State of the
Cloud Report (formerly
the RightScale State of the Cloud Report). For the past ten years,
the report has looked into all things cloud and has helped IT
professionals plan the next steps in their cloud journey. This year's report
delves into the details to understand the ins and outs of all things cloud -
from spend allocation to cost management and cloud strategies.
The
survey results are available in the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud
Report, which can be downloaded here: https://info.flexera.com/CM-REPORT-State-of-the-Cloud. The report explores what 750 global cloud decision
makers and users are thinking about the public, private and multi-cloud market.
It shares their current and future cloud strategies, often showing
year-over-year changes to help identify trends.
"COVID-19 has accelerated
the migration to cloud computing," said Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Flexera.
"Still, cloud isn't magic or the land of milk and honey. Companies are moving
fast, facing challenges, and trying to connect cloud computing to business
outcomes.
"The Flexera
2021 State of the Cloud Report shows that the appetite for
digital transformation is high," Ryan continued, "but real-world
challenges-such as managing security and optimizing cloud spend-still must be
addressed."
A few
key highlights from the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report:
-
Enterprises embrace multi-cloud
- 92
percent of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy; 80 percent have a hybrid
cloudstrategy
- 49
percent silo workloads by cloud with 45 percent integrating data
betweenclouds
- Respondents
use an average of 2.6 public and 2.7 privateclouds
-
Public cloud adoption continues
toaccelerate
- 31
percent of enterprises spend more than $12milliona year on
publiccloud
- 54
percent of enterprise workloads are expected to be in public cloud in
12months
- 90
percent of respondents who answered a question about COVID-19 expect cloud use
to exceed plans due to thepandemic
-
Understanding cloud initiatives and
metrics
- 61
percent overall plan to optimizecloud costs in 2021, making it a top
initiative for the fifth year in arow
- 59
percent of advanced users name cloud migration as a key initiative
- 76
precent overall use cost efficiency and saving to measure cloudprogress
-
Organizations taking a centralized
approach tocloud
- 75
percent of enterprises have a central cloud team or center
ofexcellence
- 54
percent of cloud teams are responsible for governing IaaS/PaaS usage
andcosts
- 63percent
of enterprises report using cloud managed service providers for public
clouduse
-
AWS leads, Azure continues
to narrow thegap
- All seven of the cloud providers tracked in the State of the
CloudReportexperienced growth. AWS adoption grew to 77 percent
(from 76 percent last year); Azure grew to 73 percent (from 63 percent last
year); Google Cloud grewto 47 percent (from 35 percent last year); VMware
Cloud on AWS grew to 24 percent (from 17 percent last year); Oracle
InfrastructureCloud grew to 29 percent (from 17 percent last year); IBM
Public Cloud grew to 24 percent (from 13 percent last year); and Alibaba Cloud
grew to 12 percent (from 7 percent last year).
The
report leveraged a panel of 750 technical professionals from around the globe
and across a broad cross-section of industries, providing insight into their
adoption of cloud infrastructure. The independent panel comprises vetted
respondents with detailed profiles and is rigorously maintained. The survey was
conducted in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Complete
results and highlights are available in the Flexera 2021 State of the
Cloud Report. The report results are made available under an Open
Source Creative Commons License so the data may be freely shared with the
required attribution.