The Rise of Distributed Workloads and Its Impact on IT Decision Making

TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) conducted an in-depth survey of 350 IT professionals responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing applications and infrastructure at large midmarket and enterprise organizations in order to better understand the strategy, process, personas, and considerations involved in multi-cloud application deployment and migration decisions. The results show that distributed application environments spanning multiple public clouds, data centers, and edge and colocation locations are the present and future reality for IT. In addition, trends identified in this research point toward a more even distribution of applications and spending across on- and off-premises environments in the future and away from consolidation at any single location.