For the third year in a row, software company HashiCorp surveyed its customers about their multi-cloud experiences.
On the eve of its HashiDays conference in London, America’s HashiCorp yesterday presented the results of its third annual survey of its customers.
While the last two years have been mostly about implementing a multi-cloud, this year the focus has been on how companies have grown using this system. For this purpose, a maturity scale for the use of the multi-cloud was even created in cooperation with the Forrester research institute:
- Low (enterprises are only experimenting with multi-cloud)
- Medium (companies implementing the system)
- High (Enterprises using multi-cloud extensively)
In total, there were almost a thousand respondents from various industries.
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If you would like to see all the figures, you can find the results of the survey online. Most percentages are not just general in nature. The results also compare the responses of companies with low and high scores on this maturity scale.
We won’t go into all the numbers, but we’ll pick out a few notable ones.
Some results
For example, how did the companies surveyed invest? More than half, 56 percent, said they spend more on running their multi-cloud than they did a year ago. For companies with a high degree of maturity, this value rose to 62.
In any case, the satisfaction and trust in the multi-cloud seems to be good. Overall, 92 percent believe the system will help them achieve their goals or anticipate that it will within the next year.
According to Chris Van Wesep, senior director of product management at HashiCorp, the theme of “talent and staff” is a recurring theme in the survey. He indicated this himself yesterday when presenting several results. Nearly three-quarters of high-maturity companies said multi-cloud helps them attract new talent. In general, 81 percent consider “talent and qualified personnel” to be an important factor for the success of a multi-cloud in their company.
Multi cloud as an asset
An important part of a multi-cloud implementation is the use of platform teams. It is one of the five determinants of the maturity scale. Overall, 92 percent of respondents indicated that their organization uses such a team to some extent. This character is given a certain perspective in the detail. For example, 22 percent of respondents who score low on the maturity scale either don’t do it at all or have no idea if they do or not. The main reason for this is the lack of suitable people.
Finally, let’s look at the overall best answer to how your business can benefit from using multi-cloud. It turned out that this was the attitude towards good security. It had gotten worse in 74 percent of those surveyed. A value that increased even more for companies that are high on the maturity scale. While Chris Van Wesep added the nuance with a smile, part of this result was influenced by the fact that, precisely because of multi-cloud, companies are more centralized and therefore more concerned about security.