FINAL WORD
Adoption of cloud based infrastructure accelerating
It is likely that your approach to cloud infrastructure adoption was cautious at first . You may have limited your focus to rapid provisioning , or reducing equipment and operational costs . But the benefits of the cloud have been impossible to resist . It continues to evolve , gaining credibility across every industry . Today , we expect all enterprise systems to have the transformative aspects of the cloud and you will see that the Iaas landscape in 2017 has even more to offer .
Cloud-based mission-critical workloads will take off Cloud has long promised the migration of all enterprise production workloads . But that migration has yet to happen . The chief barrier to cloud migration remains a lack of commitment and recourse to support production service-level agreements . On one hand , cloud providers are limiting their accountability as they lack the talent to support custom portfolios . On the other , they are failing to provide sufficient control into the public datacentre to self-manage service-level agreements . The IaaS provider , best equipped to take more responsibility and deliver the control tenants demand , will be the one to drive cloud migration in 2017 .
Corporate datacentre numbers will plummet Just a few years ago , this statement would have seemed outrageous . But now it seems all but inevitable . As organisations focus their IT spending on cloud computing , they will begin to shift their workloads from corporateowned datacentres to purpose-built facilities , managed and run by enterprise cloud providers . Oracle CEO , Mark Hurd predicts that we will see corporate-owned datacentre numbers fall 80 % by 2025 , and that the same percentage of IT spending will be devoted to
Ahmed Adly is Senior Director Cloud Computing Leader at Oracle
cloud services . While corporate datacentre numbers may not fall straight away , we do expect an immediate reduction in direct investment for compute capacity , storage and networking services .
Enterprise cloud most secure place for IT processing This year ’ s threat landscape will be highly changeable . External threats , coupled with the need for better governance and privacy mandates , will make security a key priority for all lines of business . According to Frost & Sullivan , cloud computing security services in the UAE is set to grow to $ 72.3 million by 2019 . In the past year , security was a major barrier to cloud investment . Data sovereignty , data privacy and control issues deterred many organisations from pursuing cloud adoption . But in the future , those very concerns will be the things that draw new organisations to the cloud . Established cloud vendors with security track records have the expertise and resources to deploy layers of defense that many companies simply cannot duplicate in-house .
The cloud empowers small business innovation The cloud has become a catalyst for smallbusiness growth , allowing them to innovate freely , carve out new markets , and disrupt the status quo . The digital economy demands that companies of all sizes compete based on technology-enabled value . While some seek to evolve existing business practices , others are striving to launch new services that exploit extensive , low-cost computational power . Traditionally , access to such a high-performance resource has been too expensive for smaller businesses . But what once cost $ 100 million up front , is now available for $ 10 per hour . The cloud is allowing small businesses to innovate , experiments and sustain ongoing profitability .
60 % of IT organisations move systems management to cloud Over 90 % of companies have multiple systems management tools , but just 6 % trust their incomplete data . Consequently , IT operations professionals struggle to create effective management approaches . The pace of business is increasing . As more organisations adopt DevOps practices and focus on digital experience , they will need to eliminate management data silos and embrace machine learning just to keep up . Some have already embraced systems management in the cloud , unifying management data across multiple clouds and on premises . Others are benefiting from data science applied to the operational management problem . By 2020 , 60 % will have moved their most critical systems management use cases to the cloud .
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