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Survey Says: Cloud Maturity Matters

The third annual https://www.hashicorp.com/state-of-the-cloud, 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. 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 https://thenewstack.io/how-a-cloud-skills-shortage-is-affecting-multicloud-adoption/.

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.

High-maturity respondents, the top 25%, are scaling these practices across the entire organization.

Yet even as they increased cloud spending, more than half (53%) of high-maturity respondents used multicloud to cut costs, compared to just 42% of low-maturity respondents.