Get Ready for Multi-Cloud Solutions in 2023
- By CDOTrends editors
- January 03, 2023
The future of digital transformation in Asia/Pacific (APAC) is becoming increasingly reliant on cloud computing and cloud services. From startups to established enterprises, organizations across the region leverage cloud-based applications and services to scale operations, improve efficiency, increase agility and enable innovation.
More specifically, regional companies are now looking beyond technology and services implementation. They embrace cloud capabilities to give them a competitive edge through multi-cloud solutions.
According to the Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey 2022, companies are beginning to embrace multi-cloud solutions to reduce complexity, vendor lock-in, data privacy, and governance challenges. These solutions allow companies to manage multiple cloud services and applications across vendors while still providing the same level of performance and reliability.
“With the multi-cloud environment becoming more manageable, organizations are loving the openness towards having workload portability and getting the best out of their cloud strategy,” says Shahnawas Latiff, research manager at IDC Asia/Pacific.
The survey also suggests that APAC organizations invest more in cloud services to access the benefits beyond cost savings. These include accessing new agile business models and capabilities and enabling powerful analytics across their data. Whether through public cloud or private, companies harness the power of multi-cloud solutions to ensure data security and drive better performance.
Businesses and organizations are also looking toward ecosystem partners and professional service providers to provide specialized capabilities to cloud service providers. The increased competition in the market is driving innovation by allowing more tailored and customized solutions based on customers’ needs.
Early this year, IDC also predicted that by 2024, 40% of APEJ organizations would use a joint telco/cloud provider sovereign cloud running on local infrastructure to ensure compliance and limit extraterritorial connectivity, access, and data movement.
IDC also forecasts that by 2025, 30% of midsize to large APEJ enterprises will adopt Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) to enable operational agility, service customization, and flexible consumption models that support complex network and multi-cloud environments.
"Since the COVID-19 pandemic disruption, enterprise spending on connectivity is more strategic and has an increased priority to enable ‘branch of one’ operations following the pandemic," says Nikhil Batra, associate research director for telecom & IoT research at IDC Asia/Pacific. " Multiple IDC surveys have indicated that buyers are moving beyond cost-saving to capitalize on a cloud-based collaboration and other applications while modernizing their networks to support the highly distributed enterprise in a secure and resilient manner."
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