Cloud Native Users

EuroCloud and ISG Survey

The attractiveness of public cloud-based development and operating concepts is increasing noticeably. However, a fundamental paradigm shift has yet to take place. The gradual shift to cloud-native continues: 27 percent of IT managers state that their company has already created applications in public cloud environments and also has them operated there. Compared to the previous year, this is an increase of five percentage points - according to one of the key findings of the user survey, which the market research and consulting company Information Services Group conducts annually together with EuroCloud Native (ECN), the cloud-native initiative of the industry association EuroCloud Deutschland, to investigate the interest of German user companies in cloud-native approaches.

As in the previous year, 200 IT decision-makers from medium-sized businesses were surveyed for this purpose. "The results of the survey show that the willingness to switch to cloud-native has increased significantly, especially in medium-sized businesses," says Heiko Henkes, Director and Principal Analyst at ISG. Once again, the cost pressure factor is one of the most important drivers of this development. Against the backdrop of the further worsening inflation trend, nine out of ten respondents see cloud-native solutions as an important means of reducing the operating costs of their IT services. This approval rate is a real top value, Henkes continues. However, the substantive value propositions of the cloud-native approach also received growing approval - above all the automation options in capacity allocation and the speed gains in recovery and restart of cloud-native-based solutions.