MariaDB Corporation announced the results of a new global survey that looked at the initial COVID-19 impact on businesses moving to the cloud and IT professionals’ attitudes on what has changed – and what they think will change. Nearly all (99%) respondents worldwide indicated an impact on their business today related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation only slightly improves looking ahead to 2021, with 84% expecting a continued impact. And 74% of respondents expect a second wave of COVID-19 impact, with 51% planning to move more applications to the cloud to prepare for it.
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MariaDB is one the top five most used databases globally, with availability on all of the leading cloud platforms and 75% of Fortune 500 companies running it. With this position in the marketplace, MariaDB is uniquely able to bring a global perspective on technology trends facing businesses worldwide.
The goal with issuing the survey was to identify and put meaningful cloud adoption statistics to trends the company noticed with regard to COVID-19’s impact on IT operations, such as increased interest in cloud databases like MariaDB SkySQL, in-person events, outlook on the future and more. Beyond the hard business numbers, the survey also looked at the “human” impact of current and future changes.
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Cloud Adoption Accelerating for Some, Slowing for Others
The impact on businesses’ cloud adoption plans – with 40% currently accelerating their move to the cloud – has led to increases across a range of related decisions as companies prepare for future COVID-related shutdowns. When asked to select all that apply, the top choices on this topic were:
- 51% are planning to move more applications to the cloud
- 39% expect to be 100% in the cloud
- 32% are starting a move to the cloud
On the flip side, 24% of all respondents said they are slowing down their move to the cloud because of COVID-19’s impact. The U.S. indicated the highest percentage of slowing (36%), while the U.K. had the lowest (12%).
Specific to cloud databases, when asked what would prevent them from going “all-in” (choosing all that apply), the results showed:
- Security: 73%
- Price: 46%
- Compatibility: 45%
- Scalability: 35%
- Migration: 33%
- Lack of multi-cloud offering: 21%
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