Barriers to applications workloads moving on deployment platforms worldwide 2020-2021

Published by Kimberly Mlitz, May 11, 2021

In 2021, 22 percent of respondents state that a barrier for moving workloads freely is the inability for application components to be fully portable. Another impediment is the inability to ensure security across multiple platforms. This emphasizes the fact that managing data takes several aspects, such as considering requirements to sharing data and avoiding lock-ins into certain configurations that make switching services difficult.

What do you believe is the greatest barrier to applications workloads moving freely across deployment platforms (data centers, clouds, edge computing, etc.)?

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Release date

March 2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

February 2021

Number of respondents

819 (2921) / 938 (2020)

Special properties

IT professionals*

Supplementary notes

*Respondents' job functions: infrastructure/operations (36%), architecture (19%), applications (11%), security/compliance (9%), non-IT (9%), development (8%), DevOps (6%), container platforms (3%).
Respondents represent company sizes from small to global enterprise and a wide range of industries: technology (21%), service provider (10%), healthcare (12%), financial services (13%), government (7%), education (9%), retail/e-commerce (8%), media and entertainment (3%), and other (17%).

**ex. Database services on different clouds that work differently and may require a re-write to move to another cloud.