Maturing cloud practices are leading the average cloud user to leverage six different clouds, between running applications and experimenting on public and private clouds, RightScale said in its latest report. The RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report shows that enterprise workloads continue to be moved into the cloud, particularly private clouds, driving a sustained increase in hybrid adoption.
The report is assembled from the answers of over 1,000 technical professionals surveyed about cloud adoption. While it confirms the well-established dominance of hybrid approaches to enterprise cloud use, it also indicates some shifts from a year ago significant to service providers.