{"id":22710700,"date":"2023-06-13T06:20:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/?p=22710700"},"modified":"2023-06-13T06:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T13:20:36","slug":"survey-says-cloud-maturity-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/survey-says-cloud-maturity-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Says: Cloud Maturity Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The third annual State of Cloud Strategy Survey<\/a>, commissioned by HashiCorp and conducted by Forrester Consulting, focuses on operational cloud maturity — defined not by the amount of cloud usage but by adoption of a combination of technology and organizational best practices at scale.<\/p>\n

The results were unambiguous: The organizations using operational best practices are deriving the biggest benefits from their cloud efforts, in everything from security and compliance to availability and the ability to cope with the ongoing shortage of critical cloud skills<\/a>. High-maturity companies were more likely to report increases in cloud spending and less likely to say they were wasting money on avoidable cloud spending.<\/p>\n

The seven headline numbers below capture many of the survey’s most important findings, and you can view the interactive State of Cloud Strategy Survey microsite<\/a> for detailed results and methodology. Read on to learn more about our cloud maturity model and some of the key differences we found between high and low cloud-maturity organizations.<\/p>\n

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Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HashiCorp, February 2023<\/p><\/div>\n

Our Cloud Maturity Model<\/h2>\n

To fully understand the survey results you need to know something about the cloud maturity model developed by HashiCorp and Forrester to describe where organizations are in their cloud adoption journey. HashiCorp commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey almost 1,000 technology practitioners and decision-makers from companies in a variety of industries around the world, primarily those with more than 1,000 employees.<\/p>\n

Forrester asked about their use of best practices across technology layers including infrastructure, security, networking and applications, as well as their use of platform teams, and used that data to separate respondents into three tiers:<\/p>\n