Exploring and Pushing Hybrid Cloud Adoption Trends

The 2021 Hybrid Cloud Adoption trend shows that companies continue to adopt multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies and increase costs with vendors across the board, citing more significant cloud usage than expected due to COVID-19 pandemic constraints during 2020.

Respondents have higher cloud costs than at any time this year, but they continue to struggle to predict spending accurately as they significantly exceed their cloud budgets.

As a result, optimizing existing cloud usage remains at the top of the companies’ priority list for 2022 for the fifth year in a row, followed by the migration of multiple cloud loads.

Hybrid Cloud adoption is upon us!

With cloud computing growing at the fastest ever, respondents’ adoption of Azure continues to move closer to the AWS leader. Google Cloud adoption has increased, reaching figures close to Azure and AWS.

In addition, companies have historically taken a fragmented approach to move their applications to the cloud. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to take that migration more seriously as telecommuters increasingly need access to home-based business applications.

Three trends to look at in 2022

The hybrid cloud stands out as companies accelerate their digital transformation plans. There is a standard part of three critical questions for IT leaders:

The hybrid cloud goes to the edge

Definitions for a hybrid cloud vary but usually refer to a combination of public cloud, private cloud, and bare-metal infrastructure. That is historically true. The essence of NIST’s decade-long report on the hybrid deployment model is based on the (still relevant) case of using a pop-up from your data center in the public cloud to deal with increased capacity.

But the basic definitions are now being expanded to reflect the new realities of hybrid cloud architecture, which is not limited to your data center and cloud platforms of choice.

Organizations will seek and design portability

As Cadus notes above, the maturation of the Cybernetics and the living ecosystem growing on top of it helps fulfill the promise of “write once, run everywhere” for containerization and hybrid cloud.

It deserves to be unpacked and underlined here. Portability challenges prevent some organizations from taking full advantage of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud.

Distributed IT fulfills centralized control

The hybrid cloud (and multi-cloud) — especially when intersecting with edge calculations — reflects the enterprise; IT is an overall change from a centralized to a distributed model.

Virtually every part of the organization and its IT portfolio, from infrastructure to applications to data, expands across multiple locations and environments.

The same is true for people now, with many organizations switching to a remote or hybrid work model on a permanent or indefinite basis.

Conclusion

The three key themes identified in the report relate to business agility, security and compliance, and performance and operational efficiency.

It is coupled in all that is a financial impact of a platform selection to ensure that low cost is the most critical driver in all cases. It’s ultimately about delivering the business value at the end of the day.

So, Hybrid Cloud Adoption is among us. We’re seeing a real need to develop a uniform and consistent approach toward ensuring enterprise security and compliance are met across all their platforms.