Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 57 | Page 22

LATEST INTELLIGENCE SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN A MULTI-CLOUD WORLD PRESENTED BY Download whitepaper here Businesses are increasingly investing in digital capabilities to drive innovation, keep pace with competition and improve efficiencies. As cloud becomes mainstream, customers are beginning to realise the benefits from multiple technology investments. Organisations that are outpacing their peers in IT transformation are investing primarily in three key technologies – data integration, cloud and AI. Data integration is table stakes for deriving maximum value from both cloud and AI. The three technologies combined multiply innovation for those organisations undergoing the fastest rates of IT transformation. Of the three technology investments, almost half of all spend is for data integration, including data extraction, ingest and storage. Non-cloud solutions are becoming a smaller part of the overall application portfolio. While customers continue to deploy public cloud infrastructure and PaaS solutions at a rapid rate, they are also significantly increasing investments in private cloud solutions both in their own datacentres and with a host or managed services provider. Multi-cloud deployments are now the norm for enterprise organisations – less than 30% of customers report using single cloud environments. Most customers leverage different cloud platforms across multiple service providers. The interoperability of data and applications between these varied cloud environments is growing in importance, yet access to hybrid cloud capabilities (where a single application runs across multiple clouds) remains elusive for most enterprises. Where interoperability does exist, private cloud (either on-premises or with a service provider) is typically the on-ramp to public cloud interoperability. • 22 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com