OVHcloud’s recent executive report on the state of multi-cloud says 62% of organisations are already using a multi-cloud environment, and another 18% are in the process of switching to just one. The report looked at the opinions of more than 500 IT leaders from large companies in the UK.
“Putting the right workload in the right cloud is quickly becoming accepted as the best way to do business today,” said Matt Tebay, sales director at OVHcloud.
“Almost two thirds (64%) of organisations expect to use multi-cloud more in the next two years. This shows that, even though it can be hard to set up, companies can see the benefits right now. In fact, only 3% of businesses said they would use multi-cloud less in the next two years, and less than 1% said they had no plans to use it at all.”
Half of the people who answered the study said that one of the best things about multi-cloud was that it was flexible and let organisations run workloads in the right cloud environments.
Another good thing about it was that it made things more agile (41%). Some of the biggest benefits were lower costs and better infrastructure for less money (40%), as well as lower organisational risk (39%), which came from having fewer points of failure.
Tebay went on to say, “Running the right application on the right cloud can bring significant operational gains to organisations. Working in multiple cloud environments can require more training and skills, but when done right, it can improve flexibility and bring in a lot of money for the business.”
The report did, however, point out some problems with multi-cloud environments.
For example, 27% of IT decision-makers said that technical complexity was one of their main worries or areas of risk, and 31% said that they were worried about the fact that they had to protect more endpoints, which means there were more possible security holes.
Just under half of the people who participated in the study said they were still “on the road” to multi-cloud, but they were taking things one step at a time.
“However, 23% of IT decision-makers said that using multiple clouds was “plain sailing” and that they were seeing big benefits. This shows how important it is to have a mature, well-thought-out approach to multiple clouds.”
The market research company Censuswide surveyed 504 IT leaders at large businesses with 201 to 700 employees for the study.
