The explosion of Cloud has changed the face of how enterprises do business, and it's not about to slow down anytime soon.
Cloud Trend 1
Multi and Hybrid cloud environments will continue to grow
Businesses recognise that cloud data management isn’t about having one specific platform or infrastructure, it’s about choosing the solution that’s right for the job at hand. In some cases, this isn’t cloud at all, it might be on-premises or even legacy systems. It’s not uncommon that enterprises are locked into specific systems for business-critical solutions that are cumbersome or complex to adapt.
In 2020, the emerging cloud trend is that enterprises are becoming less worried about sticking with one cloud vendor, and are embracing a multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud offering where they can get the best out of each solution. According to Global Channel Chief at Google, Carolee Gearhart, “Gartner is estimating that by 2021, 75 percent of midsize and large organisations will have adopted multi-cloud or a hybrid strategy. When I think about that just in terms of where we are in the evolution, that means 2020 is going to be a year of really big acceleration.”
Cloud Trend 2
Retaining Compliance in an increasingly complex Environment
In order to join this cloud trend, businesses need to have a vendor-agnostic approach and look for SaaS solutions that reduce bottlenecks or blind spots. Visibility across a heterogeneous environment will be more important than ever, ensuring that organisations can achieve the same level of insight across the board, in various instances and platforms, without gaps.
If this is unsuccessful, these blind spots could be leveraged by cyber-attackers, or could leave issues for internal governance and compliance. At the moment, data privacy and security are cited as the top roadblocks for enterprise cloud adoption, and introducing additional infrastructure into the mix further complicates the matter.
Cloud Trend 3
Organisations will make it a Priority to Control Cloud Costs
According to Gartner, the worldwide revenue from public cloud will grow by 17% this year to $266.4 billion. A record-breaking 60% of organisations will be using an external cloud provider’s managed services offering by 2022, doubled from 30% in 2018 – growth is an undeniable cloud trend.
The decentralised model of consumption has raised costs for organisations exponentially, and often without any control over the spiralling bottom line. Businesses will have to start to get a handle on these costs as cloud usage grows, streamlining the expenditure that they are not utilising to full effect, and cutting out duplicate spending or unnecessary overheads.
As different cloud and hybrid services have different pricing and billing models, and costs can change from month to month, this could be a tall order. Innovative third-party solutions that can support organisations in getting granular insight into their hybrid network and provide unified management of costs will rise to the top.
Cloud Trend 4
Solution-focused Partners
As businesses continue to move their infrastructure using SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, one cloud trend is that there will be a continued need for third-party vendors who really specialise in meeting specific use cases and problem-solving new cloud challenges. While your cloud provider will be responsible for infrastructure needs such as storage, outsources will be taking care of compute and networking, specific needs such as data, visibility, AI and ML technology, or IoT.
These external partners need to have a strong insight into how cloud computing and its associated technologies work, leaving the hardware element to AWS, Microsoft or the other infrastructure leaders, but well-versed in how to get the best solutions on both the cloud and on-premises for specific organisational needs.
Cloud Trend 5
A Continued Shift to Tech on Demand
As cloud costs get taken under control, businesses will have more revenue at their disposal to take advantage of these solutions that beat their specific industry challenges. In turn, providers will look to push out innovation that is easily accessible to a wide audience, has a low learning curve, low-code interface, and is more democratised overall, so that anyone can reap the rewards. Without the need for a team of data scientists, organisations will begin to see the benefits of Machine Learning, AI, and automation in a very tangible way to solve and enhance business strategy and an exciting cloud trend in 2020.
The next level of cloud trends that we’re going to see as we move through 2020 is organisations getting ahead of the challenges of compliance and security, and partnering with smart, innovative external solutions. These companies will already have a deep understanding of the new hybrid reality, and therefore allow forward-thinking customers to see an immediate benefit from their targeted skills and expertise
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