As cloud spending continues to accelerate, enterprises are also spending more on services used in conjunction with cloud deployments, such as cloud integration, application modernization, and security and compliance, while doing what they can to stay within budget and effectively manage multiple clouds. Survey data suggests that additional services may help organizations get a better handle on public cloud spending, as respondents cite scaling to unanticipated demand and lack of governance around cloud utilization as factors that led to budget overruns. On-premises infrastructure continues to be an important part of IT spending, and there are new options that bring a cloud-like experience to on-premises hardware, which has seen growing interest from respondents over the last year.
