Techstrong Research polled its community of DevOps and cloud native readers and viewers to take their pulse on workload portability. Respondents indicated the top three drivers for workload portability are business continuity/disaster recovery (31%), cost savings (30%), and resilience (27%). Other survey questions included:
- Do you expect to move workloads between cloud providers?
- Why do you need workload portability?
- Do you plan to move workloads back and forth between providers, or is it a one-way effort?
- What approaches do you take in application architecture to facilitate portability?
- What are the biggest challenges you face in moving workloads?
- Do you agree with the following statements about data migration costs?