1. Leading IT professionals embrace multicloud. In order to scale applications to meet the needs of their users, more and more organizations are managing their resources in distributed application environments.
According to a recent survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, the majority of organizations deploy applications in 2+ on-premises data centers, 2+ colocation providers, 3+ IaaS providers, and 3+ PaaS providers. The age of multicloud is officially here, as 85% of organizations indicated they deploy applications on two or more IaaS providers. Download slide Source: Enterprise Strategy Group eBook, Multicloud Application Deployment & Delivery Decision Making, February 2023
2. When it comes to selecting the right cloud provider, more groups are getting a seat at the table.
For many, choosing a cloud provider used to be the sole responsibility of the IT department. But today, it is a highly strategic decision involving multiple members across IT, information security, the C-suite, and more. On average, 3.7 groups in an organization own cloud selection decisions. The top groups cited that have decision-making authority are IT Leadership (50%), Information Security, (47%), IT Infrastructure and Management (47%), and non-IT Executive Management/C-suite (44%). Download slide Source: Enterprise Strategy Group eBook, Multicloud Application Deployment & Delivery Decision Making, February 2023
3. Cloud-first is the dominant policy for deploying new applications.
Across deployment strategies for net-new applications and workloads, 47% of organizations within various industries follow a cloud-first strategy by deploying new applications using public cloud services. Meanwhile, 27% of organizations consider both public cloud services and on-premises resources for new applications, while 26% are on-premises-first but still consider compelling cases to deploy in cloud. Download slide Source: Enterprise Strategy Group eBook, Multicloud Application Deployment & Delivery Decision Making, February 2023
4. The desire for flexibility fuels multicloud decision making, and the type of desired flexibility varies by industry.
Performance flexibility (35%) is the top cited reason for using more than one public cloud infrastructure provider. Industry also plays a role in what type of prioritization IT leaders care about. For example, healthcare organizations (45%) lean more heavily towards cost flexibility. Retail (48%) and technology (45%) organizations want teams to be able to use their preferred clouds of choice. Finance organizations (43%) want to avoid vendor lock-in. Download slide Source: Enterprise Strategy Group eBook, Multicloud Application Deployment & Delivery Decision Making, February 2023
5. Organizations are doubling down on cloud and hybrid cloud, pushing even more applications out of on-premises environments.
In 2022, 93% of technology leaders said they were “mostly cloud” in some form — up from 83% two years ago — and 48% said they were “mostly hybrid,” up from 40% two years ago. Meanwhile, the number of respondents who said they were “mostly on-premises” dropped by half to 7%. Download slide Source: 2022 State of APIs and Applications
6. IT leaders say APIs give their business an edge.
More than six in 10 (61%) say that APIs help build better digital experiences and products, and 54% say they accelerate innovation by facilitating collaboration with partners. Download slide. Source: 2022 State of APIs and Applications
7. Tools built by cloud providers are a preferred starting place for operations and management teams working in the cloud.
69% of IT leaders and decision-makers trust that cloud providers can build better tools to manage their own clouds. Download slide Source: “A Built-In Observability Tool Adoption Blueprint for Public Cloud: Driving Quantified Value for DevOps, Development, Operations, and SRE Teams,” IDC whitepaper sponsored by Google Cloud, 2022
8. Budgets are increasing across both internal private cloud and public, and across cloud workload types.
In the 2022 Infrastructure Cloud Survey, respondents reported an increase in IT budget for both public cloud (75%) and internal private cloud (77%) during 2022. Download slide. Source: Forrester 2022 Infrastructure Cloud Survey
9. Multicloud and hybrid cloud use is on the rise.
Some 26% of people reported using multiple public clouds in 2022, up from 21% in 2021. Hybrid cloud use also increased from 25% to 42.5%. Download slide. Source: 2022 State of DevOps Report, commissioned by the Google Cloud DORA Team
10. The use of cloud computing continues to accelerate.
During 2022, 76% of people reported using the public cloud, including multiple clouds — up from 56% in 2021. Download slide. Source: 2022 State of DevOps Report, commissioned by the Google Cloud DORA Team