Worldwide enterprise cloud strategy 2021-2024

As of 2024, 73 percent of the enterprise respondents indicated that they have deployed a hybrid cloud in their organization. The migration to hybrid cloud solutions generally happens at the expense of operating single private and public clouds.

Hybrid clouds merge public and private clouds

A hybrid cloud solution basically merges public and private clouds. Private clouds offer a dedicated cloud infrastructure to a single company and can either be managed by the company itself or by a third-party service. Public clouds, on the other hand, are managed by service providers such as AWS or Microsoft Azure who rent out a part of their distributed data center infrastructure to customers.

Hybrid cloud strategies provide flexibility

A hybrid cloud solution combines public and private clouds to provide businesses with greater flexibility to move workloads between clouds to suit their needs. Additionally, hybrid cloud services can give businesses more control over their data, as well as offer the opportunity to store sensitive data in a private cloud and run enterprise applications on a public cloud.