The early 2010s saw enterprise workloads become virtualized, with many eventually running in so-called private clouds based on software such as VMware vSphere and OpenStack. Enterprises accelerated their adoption of public clouds as the decade progressed, but well more than half of the organizations The New Stack contacted this summer still require at least some of their cloud services to be provided on-premises.
At this latest cloud crossroads, 59% of IT professionals are running workloads in an off-premises private cloud according to previously unreported data from the “Faction 2020 VMware Cloud on AWS Market Survey.” Faction is a managed service provider for VMware Cloud on AWS. Our assumption is that most if not all of the survey’s sample were VMware users because the VMware User Group accounted for 83% of the 1,054 respondents, with the remainder solicited from Faction’s database.
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