May 2020
Intermediate to advanced
24 pages
34m
English
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Chapter 1. Cloud Adoption in 2020
We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. So we constructed a survey and ran it earlier this year: from January 9th through January 31st, 2020. All told, we received 1,283 responses.
A lot happened between January and the first week of March, when we got around to analyzing our survey data. It seemed clear to us that the world we’d captured in our survey was going to change (if it hadn’t already)—that some trends would accelerate, that some would decelerate, and that things would never be quite the same. It seems to us that the results of our survey offer a point-in-time snapshot of the latest trends in cloud, microservices, distributed application development, and other emergent areas. Not only do they capture where organizations are, but, more important, they illuminate how they will evolve. We will spend months or even years trying to determine the extent to which we must recalibrate our best-laid plans and assumptions. And as we do so, we will look to surveys like this one as lodestars.
Without further ado, here are the key results:
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At first glance, cloud usage seems overwhelming. More than 88% percent of respondents use cloud in one form or another. Most respondent organizations also expect to grow their usage over the next 12 months.
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A surprising number of respondents—about 25%—said that their companies plan to move all of their applications ...
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