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Contino uncovers scarcity of business-wide public cloud use

How are enterprises using the public cloud ? How mature are cloud programmes and operating models ? What are the main technical and business benefits ? What is holding businesses back ? What are the next steps ? At the beginning of 2020 , the Contino team set out to answer these questions .

Contino , a leading transformation consultancy that works with over 150 highly-regulated enterprises across the globe , has launched its State of Public Cloud in the Enterprise Report

2020 . The report findings highlight the relationship enterprises and IT decision-makers have with public cloud adoption .
Some level of engagement with cloud solutions is taking place within almost every enterprise , with only 1 % of businesses yet to dip their toe in the water . However , responses indicate that while 77 % of enterprises are using the public cloud in some capacity , only 13 % have a fully-fledged programme across their entire business .
The largest set of respondents ( 42 %) have multiple apps and projects deployed in the cloud , 24 % are still working on initial proofs-of-concept and 18 % are in the planning stage .
The cloud is causing a massive shift in how businesses are now operating , tearing apart previous business models . The report found that the most
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