Cloud Migrations Pick up the Pace in 2024

multicloud increasingly means applications are siloed instead of distributed across multiple clouds

The use of cloud to run workloads is on the rise this year, according to a new survey of tech professionals and IT leaders conducted by Flexera. Here are a few findings:

  • Fifty-eight percent of the more than 750 people surveyed said they are planning to migrate more workloads to the cloud in 2024, up from 44% who said the same in the 2023 survey.
  • Seventy-one percent are optimizing their use of their current cloud resources, up from 62% in 2023.
  • The percentage of organizations that reported multicloud usage (89% in 2024) and hybrid cloud (73%) has barely changed over the last few years. However, the the sophistication of these cloud strategies is growing beyond just having more than one public and private cloud environment

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