Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 41 | Page 75

“ WHILE ENTERPRISES ARE ACCELERATING THEIR ABILITY TO MODERNISE APPLICATIONS, THEY ARE COMING UP AGAINST CHALLENGES. ////////////////// s can r the app sforming es ns are in the midst ication explosion. e of sector or audience, ined by how fast they nised apps and services their business and experience. As such, it is number of applications years ending 2023 will e amount built in the des. is, enterprise seeking cloud port the applications sform their operational eliver against strategic eans multi-cloud; t and multiple cloud environments to meet the needs of all applications – most IT organisations support a mix of legacy applications while also deploying new cloud-native application architectures. The result is a mix of public, private, hybrid and on-premises platforms, as new global research from VMware reveals. Sixty percent of organisations are actively engaged in public cloud migration, with almost half (45%) more than halfway to their migration goal. On-premises deployment still anchors hybrid cloud, with half (49%) of applications to remain hosted in the data centre in three years. And most organisations’ cloud preference will continue to be hybrid, as they don’t want an either-or choice. www.intelligentcio.com