How companies adopt and apply cloud native infrastructure

Survey results reveal the path organizations face as they integrate cloud native infrastructure and harness the full power of the cloud.

Driven by the need for agility, scaling, and resiliency, organizations have spent more than a decade moving from “trying out the cloud” to a deeper, more sustained commitment to the cloud, including adopting cloud native infrastructure. This shift is an important part of a trend we call the Next Architecture, with organizations embracing the combination of cloud, containers, orchestration, and microservices to meet customer expectations for availability, features, and performance.

To learn more about the motivations and challenges companies face adopting cloud native infrastructure, we conducted a survey of 590 practitioners, managers, and CxOs from across the globe.[1]

Key findings from the survey include:

• Nearly 50% of respondents cited lack of skills as the top challenge their organizations face in adopting cloud native infrastructure. Given the industry is both new and rapidly evolving, engineers struggle to keep up-to-date on new tools and technologies.
• 40% of respondents use a hybrid cloud architecture. The hybrid approach can accommodate data that can’t be on a public cloud, and can serve as an interim architecture for organizations migrating to a cloud native architecture.
• 48% of respondents rely on a multi-cloud strategy that involves two or more vendors, helping organizations avoid lock-in to any one cloud provider and providing access to proprietary features that each of the major cloud vendors provide.
• 47% of respondents working in organizations that have adopted cloud native said DevOps teams are responsible for their organizations’ cloud native infrastructures, signaling a tight bond between DevOps and cloud native concepts.
• Among respondents whose organizations have adopted cloud native infrastructure, 88% use containers and 69% use orchestration tools like Kubernetes. These signals align with the Next Architecture’s hypothesis that cloud native infrastructure best meets the demands put on an organization’s digital properties.
• In our analysis, we assigned experience levels to our respondents for some of the survey questions. New respondents work at organizations that have been cloud native for less than one year; early respondents’ organizations have been cloud native for one to three years; and sophisticated respondents work at organizations that have been cloud native for more than three years.

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