According to the 2019 IDC IaaSView survey, existing applications continue to lead initial adoption in cloud infrastructure for the majority of enterprises, highlighting the value of a consistent application hosting environment for businesses.
The survey samples 1500 global cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) customers worldwide. The aforementioned application hosting trend is consistent with 2018, but 2019 also sees a "marked increase" in specific areas. For instance, the number of respondents reporting the scaling of existing applications as their use of public cloud IaaS is up from 45% in 2018 to 62% in 2019. Such growth, the analyst says, reflects both the rapid expansion of public cloud IaaS usage across enterprise customers and use cases, and the importance of the transition path for existing applications and data as they move into a public cloud IaaS environment.
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