Survey: IT Teams See Value In Both Private And Public Cloud Options
Techstrong.IT, Thursday, May 29th, 2025
A survey of 1,800 senior IT decision makers finds that public and private cloud computing platforms, depending upon security, compliance, management complexity and performance requirements of application workloads, are now being relied on in equal measure
Conducted by the market research firm Illuminas on behalf of VMware by Broadcom, the survey finds 53% of respondents identify private clouds that are either hosted in some type of colocation facility or on-premises data center as their top priority for deploying new workloads over the next three years, compared to 50% that are prioritizing public clouds.
A full 82% of respondents are running workloads in both private and public cloud computing environments, with three quarters (75%) noting that the split is intentional. Primary reasons cited for deploying workloads on a private cloud are security (81%), reliable performance (81%) and simplification of IT operations (78%). Reasons cited most often for using public cloud services are scalability (84%), reliable performance (84%) and simplification of IT operations.