RightScale announced results of a new market study of over 600 companies to uncover how businesses are approaching cloud computing and what priorities they set for implementing their cloud strategies, revealing multi-cloud is the strategy of choice for businesses.
“Cloud infrastructure now dominates as the architecture for ‘the new IT’ – and companies big and small enjoy an unprecedented variety of options for deploying the best cloud solution to meet their business needs,” said Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale. “No one-size-fits-all approach will work for everyone, which is why it’s important to choose a platform that will allow you freedom of choice now and into the future as you decide where and how to leverage infrastructure-as-a-service cloud providers.”
With adoption of cloud computing rising, businesses are becoming more sophisticated in their strategies for leveraging cloud technologies.
- More than 68 percent of survey respondents report that they are pursuing a multi-cloud strategy.
- 53 percent of respondents are pursuing a hybrid strategy that includes a combination of public and private clouds.
- Another 15 percent of respondents have a multi-cloud strategy that includes multiple public clouds, but no private clouds.
- Among the respondents that plan to use both public and private clouds, 55 percent prioritize their public and private cloud efforts equally, while 23 percent prioritize their private cloud initiatives and 22 percent prioritize their public cloud initiatives.
- 89 percent of the respondents report that public cloud will be included in their multi-cloud portfolio.
Among the 64 percent of respondents who plan to include a private cloud option as part of their cloud portfolio, open source private cloud solutions are taking the lead. 41 percent of those respondents plan to use only open source-based private cloud options (CloudStack, OpenStack or Eucalyptus), while another 29 percent plan to use a combination of open source and VMware options. 30 percent of those respondents plan to use VMware-only based private cloud options.
“We’ve seen an explosion in multi-cloud usage in the market, and among our own customer base,” said Michael Crandell, CEO of RightScale. “Many RightScale customers have already deployed multiple clouds, including private clouds, and those multi-cloud companies represent over 90% of cloud usage we manage. This means that cloud leaders are already using multiple clouds, and our survey shows that many more companies intend to employ that strategy. RightScale helps companies navigate and manage this complex landscape by offering support of eight public clouds and three private clouds. We are focused on continuing to evolve our platform and ecosystem to enable companies to take full advantage of infrastructure-as-a-service with more of the applications they use every day.”
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