Cloud adoption is steadily rising across industries, with 90% of organisations using cloud computing, compared to 88% last year, new O’Reilly research reveals.
Despite being a small increase, almost half, or 48%, of respondents said they planned to migrate 50% or more of their applications to the cloud in the coming year.
When asked about the most important initiative relating to their public cloud adoption strategy, 30% of respondents in almost every industry sector cited managing costs. Among respondents not currently using cloud computing, cost, at 19%, was the second most important factor, and 21% were concerned by regulatory requirements.
O’Reilly’s 2021 Cloud Adoption Survey explores the latest trends in cloud, microservices, distributed application development and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies
“It’s a common misconception that cloud computing is inexpensive, which is simply not a reality at corporate scale,” said Mike Loukides, vice president of content at O’Reilly. “It shouldn’t be a hindrance to adoption when you weigh the cost of migrating workloads to the cloud against possible outages and interruptions to service on traditional on-premises systems that can’t handle a heavy load or spike in traffic. This will become especially apparent for the retail industry as we approach the holiday shopping season.”
Given the events of the ongoing pandemic and the increase of digital transformation, cloud skills are in demand across the board, the survey found. Both general skills and specific expertise in areas such as security, microservices, containers and orchestration are now vital.
