Private clouds were named the number 1 strategic trend in a year where all the hype centered on public clouds.
35% of organizations use identity federation as location-based security begins giving way to a zero-trust focus on users, identity, and apps. In less than a decade, 9 in 10 organizations will follow.
After a decade of public cloud penetration, 47% of organizations say they’re cloud first, with consumer-facing apps most likely to be deployed in that model.
In an app-centric approach to their business, 56% of organizations choose clouds case-by-case for each app.
62% of organizations deploy automation and orchestration to keep pace with digital transformation and increasingly distributed apps.
87% of organizations manage multiple clouds and most struggle with security as a result.
77% of organizations are modernizing their app portfolios to fuel a heated digital economy. That’s more than double the 2020 rate, driven in part by the impacts of COVID-19.
9 in 10 organizations plan to use AI to better serve customers (although 98% say they’re missing insights they need).
85% of organizations operate multiple deployment environments and delivery models, from on-premises data centers to Software as a Services (SaaS).
95% of organizations use API gateways, way up from 35% in 2019—not least because 41% manage at least as many APIs as apps.