State of the Cloud 2019

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In January 2019, Flexera surveyed 786 technical professionals across a broad
cross-section of organizations about their adoption of cloud computing.

The 2019 State of the Cloud Survey identified several key findings:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janakirammsv/2019/03/03/10-key-…

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"1. Enterprises are betting big on multi-cloud

Customers are continuing to invest in multiple cloud platforms. This includes both the public and private cloud usage. 84 percent of the respondents are using more than 4 cloud platforms.
When compared to 2018, hybrid cloud adoption has increased by 7 percent.

  1. Public cloud continues to grow at a rapid pace

23 percent of the respondents spend at least $2.4 million annually on the public cloud while 33 percent are spending at least $1.2 million per year. Among enterprises the spend is higher - 38 percent exceeding $2.4 million per year and a half (50 percent) above $1.2 million per year.

  1. Cost optimization is the biggest challenge for enterprises

Cloud users - both enterprises & SMBs - are focused on optimizing cost and cloud usage. With 84% percent of the votes, cost optimization is the top concern for enterprises.

  1. Container adoption is on the rise among enterprises

With the adoption rate increasing to 57 percent from 49 percent in 2018, containers are becoming mainstream. Kubernetes usage increased from 27 percent to 48 percent adoption.

  1. Ansible is the preferred DevOps tool

Red Hat’s Ansible enjoys the top slot in the adoption of DevOps tools. Among all respondents, Ansible has 41 percent adoption, followed by Chef and Puppet at 37 percent adoption. Interestingly, Terraform shows the most substantial growth since last year, up by 55 percent from 20 to 31 percent adoption.

  1. Azure is the fastest growing public cloud

Azure adoption grew from 45 to 52 percent to inch closer to AWS. Azure adoption has now reached 85 percent of AWS adoption, up from 70 percent last year.

  1. AWS growth is almost flat, but the number of workloads is growing rapidly

AWS grew the percentage of users with more than 100 VMs from 31 percent in 2018 to 33 percent in 2019.

  1. Managed Database Service is the most used public cloud offering

It’s not surprising to see relational databases as the top workload of the public cloud. Almost every application relies on a transactional, relational database. Majority of the participants (53 percent) voted RDBMS as the top public cloud service, which includes both managed database services and self-hosted workloads running in virtual machines.

  1. Serverless and stream processing platforms are the fastest growing services

Serverless is one of the fastest growing services in the public cloud. Stream processing services such as Azure Event Hub, Amazon Kinesis, and Google Cloud Dataflow are gaining popularity among cloud users.

  1. Private cloud growth is abysmal

Though VMware vSphere continues to lead with 50 percent adoption, the growth is almost flat when compared to last year. Azure Stack and AWS Outposts are expected to change the private cloud landscape.

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"4. Container adoption is on the rise among enterprises

With the adoption rate increasing to 57 percent from 49 percent in 2018, containers are becoming mainstream. Kubernetes usage increased from 27 percent to 48 percent adoption."

I was a trade show booth at a security conference yesterday and had 5-6 different companies mention Kubernetes and securing those environments. It was overwhelmingly the biggest buzzword topic I heard at the show.

I’m going to start educating myself on the topic, but does anyone have any ideas/short list of companies that are well positioned to benefit from Kubernetes adoption?

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