Survey: New research shows it's a hybrid and multi-cloud world
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Survey: New research shows it's a hybrid and multi-cloud world
Understanding the cloud in corporate environments
The big picture: At this point, virtually anyone who follows the tech industry in even the most casual way has probably heard, not only about the influence of cloud computing, but also the impact of what is commonly called "multi-cloud." What many don't know, however, is the specifics of how much companies are using these cloud computing resources, what types of workloads they're running in the cloud, why they chose to use cloud services, and much more.
A new research study, initiated by TECHnalysis Research, dove into all those details. It began with a survey of 600 US-based businesses (200 medium-sized companies with 100-999 employees and 400 large enterprises with 1,000 employees or more) who were users of cloud computing services. The results show that today's cloud computing environment is an incredibly dense, rich tapestry of different workloads at various maturity levels running in different locations on different underlying platforms for many different reasons.
The basic idea with multi-cloud is that companies use multiple different cloud computing options as part of their overall computing environment. In some cases, that could mean using multiple public cloud providers, such as Amazon's AWS, Microsoft's Azure, and Google's Cloud Platform (GCP), or it could mean they're using one public cloud provider and one or more "private" or "hybrid" clouds, or some combination of all the above.
Private cloud refers to computing environments that use the same basic types of flexible technologies and software platforms that public clouds offer but do so either within the company's own data cente