Many organizations today are navigating a complex environment, balancing digital innovation with efficiency and cost optimization. Learn more about how organizations are adapting a cloud-smart approach.
Public-cloud adoption is so widespread that it’s easy to forget we are still in the very early stages of the multi-cloud era. In fact, the practice of running business operations across multiple clouds went mainstream during the pandemic, as the average number of clouds that an organization relies on spiked from 1.3 to 2.2 public clouds over the last two years—an increase of 69%.1
This is just one of many findings in the newly released Multi-Cloud Maturity Research Report by market-research firm Vanson Bourne and commissioned by VMware. The global survey of nearly 6,000 organizations reveals that cloud-smart organizations are navigating multi-cloud complexity better than most. And they’re translating their multi-cloud approach into competitive advantage.
Multi-Cloud Delivers Strategic Advantages, Yet Many Struggle with Complexity
Nearly 1-out-of-5 organizations (19%) surveyed is realizing the business value of multi-cloud, while almost all (70%) currently struggle with multi-cloud complexity. At the same time, the vast majority of organizations (95%) agree that multi-cloud architectures are now critical to business success. Even more striking, 52% believe organizations that do not adopt a multi-cloud approach risk failure.
From building higher-value apps and getting them to market faster to delivering greater employee flexibility to boosting overall financial performance, the return on investment from multi-cloud is large and multi-dimensional. But that pay-off is currently reserved for companies with an ability to drive a consistent, smart approach that spans multiple clouds—especially in key areas such as DevOps, cybersecurity, cost management, data management and data sovereignty. What can early-stage cloud organizations learn from their more advanced, cloud-smart peers?
The survey shows not only the shift to multi-cloud accelerated during the pandemic but that from 2020 to 2027, organizations expect to more than double the number of public clouds they rely on.