Viewing cloud as a Continuum New operating models can support the ever-changing needs of business Our global survey of about 4,000 respondents found nearly 65 percent saw different types of ownership and location (from public to private or hybrid up to 10 percent in cost savings from cloud migration, on average. We also to co-location to multi-cloud and edge), all dynamically supported by next- found the pandemic has led many organizations to undergo compressed generation connectivity such as 5G and software-de昀椀ned networks. transformation. That is, they’re accelerating the migration of their workloads to the cloud in months, not years. Over the next three to 昀椀ve years, more This subset of organizations harnesses the Cloud Continuum to envision a than two-thirds of workloads will shift to the cloud, with about a third of continuum in their journey—from on premises to cloud migration to growing organizations moving more than 75 percent into the cloud across most and innovating with the cloud. regions of the world. They are able to extend the Continuum vision to their entire technology Almost all organizations in our survey have some presence in the cloud stack, from infrastructure, to network, to their applications, and beyond. today. But a small subset of them—about 12-15 percent of respondents depending on region—are seeing substantial gains from their continued cloud engagement. They’re bene昀椀tting even amidst global disruptions. Continuum Competitors make choices For them, cloud isn’t just about on-demand compute, storage and network, from across the Cloud Continuum as it was 10 years ago. Even 昀椀ve years ago, cloud mostly involved choosing public shared data centers. This subset of organizations recognizes the to create a seamless technology and cloud as a launchpad for innovating and new ways of operating. capability foundation that supports the They understand that the cloud is a continuum of capabilities that span from ever-changing needs of the business. public to edge—and everything in between. This Cloud Continuum includes Ever–ready for every opportunity 5