Foreword
Every company that has been in business for 10 years or more has a digital transformation strategy. It is driven by markets demanding faster innovation cycles and a dramatically reduced time-to-market period for reaching customers with new features. This brings along an entirely new way of building and running software. Cloud technologies paired with novel development approaches are at the core of the technical innovation that enables digital transformation.
Besides building cloud native applications from the ground up, enterprises have a large number of legacy applications that need to be modernized. Migrating them to a cloud stack does not happen all at once. It is typically an incremental process ensuring business continuity while laying the groundwork for faster innovation cycles.
A cloud-native mindset, however, is not limited to technology. As companies change the way they build software, they also embrace new organizational concepts. Only the combination of both—new technologies and radical organizational change—will yield the expected successes and ensure readiness for the digital future.
When first embarking on the cloud-native journey company leaders are facing a number of tough technology choices. Which cloud platform to choose? Is a public, private or hybrid approach the right one? The survey underlying this report provides some reference insights into the decisions made by companies who are already on their way. Combined with real world case studies the reader ...
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