December 06, 2022

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A practical guide to cloud migration

The predicted rapid acceleration of cloud migration and adoption has come to fruition. Already gaining momentum before 2020, the enthusiasm for cloud computing increased during and following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jason Bright

Jason Bright

Product marketing specialist for the Hyland Cloud

Today, 94% of the U.S. market has adopted at least one cloud deployment, according to Forrester’s State of the Cloud in the U.S. 2022. These deployments include public, private and hosted private solutions, and the majority of the implementations are hybrid or multicloud users.

Adoption of cloud-native software and Platform as a Service (PaaS) is likely to speed up as organizations continue to evaluate different cloud solutions. Indeed, 74% of U.S. infrastructure decision-makers say their firms are adopting containers with a PaaS in an on-premises or public cloud environment.

With more opportunities than ever to migrate critical enterprise data to the cloud, it’s important to have a full understanding of what it entails.