The surge in remote work due to the global pandemic has accelerated massive move to cloud with cloud-first organizations outnumbering on-prem 3-1, per a study by analytics firm Devo Technology.

Some of the numbers reported by Cloud Computing News from the study indicate 81% of organizations claim that COVID had accelerated their cloud timelines and plans; a 200% jump in organizations planning to move more than 75% of their apps/workloads to the cloud, with 86% of companies placing cloud options in their decision process for new applications, and; more than 40% choosing the cloud as their first option.

Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst and ESG fellow, said, “It could not be more clear from our conversations with these companies that cloud considerations are no longer a project-based decision, but an ‘all-in’ business strategy."