Insights from 300+ leaders on cloud migration

The world’s leading organizations are moving to the cloud to help them innovate faster, make smarter decisions, and collaborate from anywhere. Technology leaders are quickly migrating apps and workloads to the public cloud, and many plan further expansion in the next 12 months. Are you ready to get started on your organization's cloud migration?

 What workloads are most organizations migrating?

• What do organizations who have already migrated wish they’d done differently? 

• What kind of benefits are organizations seeing post-migration?

As Maturity Increases, Post-Migration Key Findings Optimization Leads To Increased IT And Business Benefits 

In 2020, Forrester Consulting produced the following Opportunity Snapshot, “State Of Public Cloud Migration, 2020.”1 We found then that technology leaders had previously shifted many of their apps and workloads to the public cloud. Additionally, 63% at that time were planning to further expand their number of apps and workloads over the next 12 months. With all that happened in 2021, it is important to understand how the state of public cloud migration has been impacted.

With evolving remote work and digital transformation requirements, it was unsurprising that most survey respondents agree COVID-19 further amplified the value and accelerated their implementation of cloud migration. Business leaders who previously began their migration are now reaping those benefits, while challenges of midand late-phase migration maturity have become their new focus.

In 2021, firms continued their cloud migration journeys for virtually all applications, especially software development suites, databases, internal tools, emerging tech, and customer experience (CX) platforms. To facilitate these migrations, companies relied on the third-party migration of professional services and thirdparty tools — as they did in 2020. It’s worth noting that leveraged support has expanded to accompany mid- and late-stage migration journeys. Organizations have increased reliance on outside consultants and other service providers from early-stage cloud migration tasks to ongoing management post-implementation.

As Cloud Migration Journeys Mature, So Does External Support