As 2022 gets underway, we are seeing the first published reports on how the cloud landscape has evolved over 2021. These paint an interesting picture of how enterprises are using the cloud and how their needs, priorities and cloud use change. In this post, we look at some of the important findings now being made public.
When it comes to judging how successful cloud strategies have been, three-quarters of enterprises take savings and cost-efficiency into account, while optimising cloud costs is a major priority for over 60% of companies. While most enterprises expect to expand their cloud migration, their main hurdle is the understanding of application dependencies.
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Enterprise public cloud usage grows
Enterprises are continuing to expand their use of the public cloud, with annual spending increasing. At the top end, over a third of companies now have annual cloud budgets of over £9 million. By the end of 2022, it is expected that more than half of workloads will take place in a public cloud environment. Platform as a Service (PaaS) is one of the growing public cloud attractions for enterprises, with more than half using it for data warehousing and over a quarter for deploying and experimenting with advanced AI and machine learning tools.When it comes to judging how successful cloud strategies have been, three-quarters of enterprises take savings and cost-efficiency into account, while optimising cloud costs is a major priority for over 60% of companies. While most enterprises expect to expand their cloud migration, their main hurdle is the understanding of application dependencies.
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