Australian organisations embracing multicloud

Multicloud has become the new normal for Australian enterprises, according to research commissioned by Oracle.

The report from 451 Research found that 93% of Australian enterprises surveyed are using or plan to use at least two cloud infrastructure providers. Already 30% are using four or more.

Indeed, the research found that in Australia there are more enterprises using 4–10 cloud infrastructure providers than there are using a single provider.

Meanwhile 86% of Australian respondents are using or plan to use at least two cloud application providers, with 54% using cloud apps form five or more providers.

The most significant driver of multicloud adoption in Australia is redundancy/disaster recovery (32%). This differs from globally, where the top driver of multicloud strategies is the demand for data sovereignty.

Other drivers cited by Australian businesses include cost optimisation (29%), regulatory compliance (25%) and a desire for best of breed cloud services and applications (25%).

In Australia, the top workloads enterprises host with their primary infrastructure or platform as a service provider include employee productivity functions (57%), data processing, analytics and business intelligence (54%), and enterprise resource planning (46%).

By comparison, Australian businesses are most likely to offload high performance applications requiring low latency (50%), ERP (50%) and employee productivity functions (39%) to their secondary providers.

Oracle Cloud ANZ VP Carlos Cienfuegos said the findings show that multicloud has emerged whether or not businesses are ready for it. “Business mergers can turn even the most stable of IT strategies into a multicloud environment overnight,” he said.

“Whether IT teams are starting their multicloud plans from scratch or already have an implementation in place but want to add best-of-breed cloud services, OCI’s distributed cloud can help.”

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