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By Insight Editor / 1 Apr 2020 / Topics: Cloud Modern infrastructure Data center
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Businesses need to embrace innovation in order to drive new value, discover insights, and realize tangible outcomes. This requires transforming operations in order to deliver enhanced client experiences and better manage risks and costs.
How are IT leaders prioritizing such activities? What changes are they making? What strategies are they employing? We asked hundreds of CIOs, CTOs and data and digital directors in an Insight-commissioned IDG survey. This is what they told us.
Businesses need to modernize IT platforms (on-prem, edge, cloud, etc.), applications, governance, skills and processes to achieve desired business outcomes. This demands navigating unchartered waters and managing complexity amidst much change.
Two out of three IT decision-makers say IT modernization is essential to business transformation.
How far we’ve come:
Challenges afoot: 41% of organizations abandoned or delayed IT modernization initiatives in 2019. Why?
The cloud offers many benefits. Transformation strategies include hybrid and multicloud (more than one public cloud). But many also realize how difficult it is to assess workloads and choose best-fit platforms.
64% of organizations that have completed their initial IT modernization initiatives have switched from an all-private or all-public cloud strategy to a hybrid cloud approach.
Challenges with optimizing the cloud:
84% of organizations repatriated select workloads from public cloud.
Top 5 types of workloads migrated back on premises:
Nearly 7 in 10 organizations have experienced higher-than-expected cloud costs, demonstrating the importance of effective cloud planning and management.
Some reasons for unexpected cloud costs:
84% of companies are outsourcing cloud management.
A new operational model calls for a new management model — one that continues to drive efficiencies, control costs and modernize processes for all centers of data.
The IT operating environment needs to be modernized and optimized, but there are obstacles:
44% of IT leaders cite a lack of governance and compliance as a major hurdle to IT process modernization.
31% of organizations are in “post IT modernization mode” in one or more areas and are assessing how to optimize and automate their new environment.
An average of 95% of organizations (across all stages of IT modernization) leverage a managed services provider for one or more IT functions.
Prioritizing innovation: IT leaders are embracing emerging technologies and approaches to address business challenges and spearhead innovation.
43% of organizations are in the early stages of developing a strategy for AI, machine and/or deep learning.
35% of firms in the beginning stages of IT modernization have deployed public cloud container services.
91% of companies have increased or begun increasing their use of automation to support their cloud strategy.
Building a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) framework is a top priority.
Yet, finding key talent can be difficult.
38% cite lack of skills/expertise as a reason for delaying or abandoning IT modernization initiatives.
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