Post by account_disabled on Sept 16, 2023 11:13:05 GMT
Cloud usage has continued to increase over the past decade. And there is one trend that has remained constant among cloud users. The point is that security is the top priority. But this trend has changed. Security was not considered a top priority. This is the first time since Flexera began conducting an annual survey of cloud decision-makers.
According to the recently Phone Number List published 'Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report', 82% of all respondents said that their top cloud priority is 'cloud spending management.
Security was 79%. This was followed by lack of resources or expertise (78%). The report concluded that this change may be the result of companies becoming more dependent on cloud services, having to manage more spending, and at the same time becoming more familiar with cloud security.
ⓒFlexera
About half of all respondents (45%) said that their expected cloud usage and expenditures were somewhat or significantly higher than planned due to economic uncertainty, so it may be natural that interest in cloud cost management has increased.
Flexera's 12th annual report contains the results of a survey of 750 IT leaders and experts from various industries around the world. Let’s take a look at the 2023 cloud trends that will help cost-conscious businesses power their digital transformation initiatives.
Cloud dependence continues to grow
As the cloud becomes increasingly mainstream, more than half of all workloads and data are now in public clouds. About two-thirds (65%) of all respondents said their company has a lot of public cloud usage. This is an increase from 63% in the 2022 report.
One in 10 respondents (11%) said they use a single public cloud. The majority (86%) said they use multicloud (multiple public clouds (12%) and hybrid clouds (72%)). Dependence on multicloud decreased slightly compared to last year's survey results. The most common implementations in multicloud were siled apps (44%), disaster recovery (DR), or cross-cloud system failover (42%).
The most used multicloud tools across all enterprises are security tools (30%), followed by cost optimization (FinOps) tools (29%). The dependence on these tools increased significantly in companies with more than 1,000 employees. 68% said they were using cost optimization tools and 63% were using security tools.
24% of respondents said their public cloud spending exceeds $12 million annually. 18% said their current cloud spending exceeds their existing budget. Cloud spending is expected to continue to increase, with 30% of all respondents expecting their cloud spending to increase in the next 12 months.
Competition for cloud market share continues
AWS and Microsoft Azure are leaders among cloud service providers. The two companies are competing fiercely as market leaders and widening the gap between themselves and other competitors. In the 2022 report, Azure surpassed AWS in terms of adoption rate. In 2023, AWS regained the lead. 46% of companies say they run critical workloads on AWS and 41% on Azure.
Based on each company's cloud usage and public cloud service provider adoption rate, more mature cloud companies preferred market leaders. It was found that companies that use the cloud for a long time and use the cloud a lot use AWS more often.
The public cloud providers expected to see the most growth, based on the number of respondents currently testing or planning to use the cloud, were Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. They were tied at 28% each.
According to the recently Phone Number List published 'Flexera 2023 State of the Cloud Report', 82% of all respondents said that their top cloud priority is 'cloud spending management.
Security was 79%. This was followed by lack of resources or expertise (78%). The report concluded that this change may be the result of companies becoming more dependent on cloud services, having to manage more spending, and at the same time becoming more familiar with cloud security.
ⓒFlexera
About half of all respondents (45%) said that their expected cloud usage and expenditures were somewhat or significantly higher than planned due to economic uncertainty, so it may be natural that interest in cloud cost management has increased.
Flexera's 12th annual report contains the results of a survey of 750 IT leaders and experts from various industries around the world. Let’s take a look at the 2023 cloud trends that will help cost-conscious businesses power their digital transformation initiatives.
Cloud dependence continues to grow
As the cloud becomes increasingly mainstream, more than half of all workloads and data are now in public clouds. About two-thirds (65%) of all respondents said their company has a lot of public cloud usage. This is an increase from 63% in the 2022 report.
One in 10 respondents (11%) said they use a single public cloud. The majority (86%) said they use multicloud (multiple public clouds (12%) and hybrid clouds (72%)). Dependence on multicloud decreased slightly compared to last year's survey results. The most common implementations in multicloud were siled apps (44%), disaster recovery (DR), or cross-cloud system failover (42%).
The most used multicloud tools across all enterprises are security tools (30%), followed by cost optimization (FinOps) tools (29%). The dependence on these tools increased significantly in companies with more than 1,000 employees. 68% said they were using cost optimization tools and 63% were using security tools.
24% of respondents said their public cloud spending exceeds $12 million annually. 18% said their current cloud spending exceeds their existing budget. Cloud spending is expected to continue to increase, with 30% of all respondents expecting their cloud spending to increase in the next 12 months.
Competition for cloud market share continues
AWS and Microsoft Azure are leaders among cloud service providers. The two companies are competing fiercely as market leaders and widening the gap between themselves and other competitors. In the 2022 report, Azure surpassed AWS in terms of adoption rate. In 2023, AWS regained the lead. 46% of companies say they run critical workloads on AWS and 41% on Azure.
Based on each company's cloud usage and public cloud service provider adoption rate, more mature cloud companies preferred market leaders. It was found that companies that use the cloud for a long time and use the cloud a lot use AWS more often.
The public cloud providers expected to see the most growth, based on the number of respondents currently testing or planning to use the cloud, were Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. They were tied at 28% each.
