EuroCloud Pulse Check 2024: Between Cloud and Edge
Around half (47%) of those surveyed in the "EuroCloud Pulse Check 2024" expect cloud computing to have the greatest impact on the development of their IT expenditure in 2025 and 2026. In terms of deployment models, the public cloud is clearly ahead of the private cloud. While 36% of companies exclusively use the former, only 22% have committed to private environments alone.
German companies also want to increasingly use the public cloud in the future. The largest proportion of respondents (40%) currently still prefer a hybrid model. However, the figures do not indicate a decline in the importance of cloud computing, but merely a shift in perspective. This is because AI solutions are often developed as cloud-native applications and run in cloud environments.
From EuroCloud's perspective, cloud and AI are two complementary key technologies that are equally relevant for digitalization, especially for SMEs. It can therefore be assumed that AI will continue to drive cloud-native adoption.
Cloud-native strategies
Similar to last year (three percent), a cloud-native approach is out of the question for only two percent this year. This shows the importance of a way of working that is completely geared towards the cloud in order to enable more efficient use of the cloud. There still seems to be a lack of implementation. Currently, a third of all companies state that they are working cloud-natively (35%) or plan to do so in the next twelve months (32%). Last year, almost half of all companies (45%) worked with the cloud in this way and only a quarter (26%) planned to implement it in the near future within a year.
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