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Enterprise cloud usage has begun to hit a point of maturity, and there\u2019s increasing preference for a multi-cloud approach, according to a survey from cloud management provider RightScale<\/strong>. The report also documents the rise of DevOps \u2013 the marriage and integration between Development and Operations \u2013 which has grown like a weed, taking a hold in 54 percent of respondents.<\/p>\n The company assessed what stages businesses and enterprises were in their cloud strategies, with 49 percent\u00a0either partially or heavily using cloud, 17 percent developing cloud strategies and 26 percent\u00a0working on proof-of-concepts or first projects. That means only 8 percent\u00a0of respondents weren\u2019t thinking about or planning to use cloud.<\/p>\n Larger organizations are choosing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies by a large margin. Seventy seven percent of large organizations said they\u2019re going multi-cloud while close to half at 47 percent said they were planning or are using hybrid. \u00a0Enterprises with hybrid cloud strategies are making progress toward their goals, with 61 percent of those organizations already running apps in public cloud, 38 percent in private cloud and 29 percent in hybrid cloud environment.<\/p>\n The trend shows organizations moving up the maturity model, and reaping increasing benefits as they do. The top benefits reported in the survey are faster access to infrastructure, greater scalability, faster time to market with apps, and higher availability. The main issues surrounding cloud tend to disappear as these organizations move up in terms of cloud maturity. For example, security and compliance is often a major concern. It\u2019s viewed as less of a challenge as cloud usage matures: 38 percent\u00a0of beginners but only 18 percent\u00a0of experienced cloud users viewed it as a challenge. Thirty percent of “Cloud Beginners” reported that they were gaining faster access to infrastructure, while 87 percent of “Cloud Focused” respondents realized that same benefit.<\/p>\n More cloud is being used, and it\u2019s being used more often in a hybrid or multi-cloud situation, and DevOps has indeed taken a grip on the enterprise. RightScale has interest across the board here, from helping cloud watchers and beginners to more advanced users who want to scale out their use of cloud. \u00a0The full RightScale 2013 State of the Cloud report is available here<\/a>\u00a0(registration required), and last year\u2019s survey here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Enterprise cloud usage has begun to hit a point of maturity, and there\u2019s increasing preference for a multi-cloud approach, according to a survey from cloud management provider RightScale. The report also documents the rise of DevOps \u2013 the marriage and integration between Development and Operations \u2013 which has grown like a weed, taking a hold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}