ESG Distributed Cloud Series Study 2: Cloud-native Applications

IT organizations are trying to keep their businesses running while migrating to modern, future-proof approaches. To understand cloud-native application trends, ESG surveyed 387 IT professionals at organizations in the U.S. responsible for evaluating, purchasing, managing, and building application infrastructure.

This study has several goals:

• Understand how businesses are approaching cloud native application orchestration.


• Investigate how teams are solving complex issues at different layers of the application stack.


• Explore microservices-based, containerized application environments, including benefits and challenges.


• Gain insight into the impact of developer velocity