In 2020, Forrester Consulting produced the following Opportunity Snapshot, “State Of Public Cloud Migration, 2020.” 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