NetApp has published his Cloud Complexity Report 2023 (2023 Cloud Complexity Report), which he has prepared based on a survey carried out worldwide and which explores how decision makers in companies are working to cover the cloud requirements derived from the digital transformation and different initiatives related to Artificial Intelligence, as well as the complexity of multicloud environments.
Among their findings is that 98% of senior IT managers have already suffered from the increased complexity of the cloud to some degree. As a result, they have had to deal with everything from poor IT performance to lost revenue and obstacles to business growth. (sapns2)
Data complexity, according to NetApp, has reached a fever pitch for businesses, and IT managers are under increasing pressure to mitigate its impact on business. Added to this is the fact that organizational and technical barriers can slow down your cloud strategies. 88% indicate that working with different cloud environments is a barrier for them. Another 32% have difficulties just to align their vision on the matter with the one they have on the management.
If the complexity of data cannot be managed, there are several areas that can be affected and that concern companies in different countries. Cybersecurity is one of them, and the main one for companies in France, Spain, Australia and New Zealand. But also problematic is management’s skepticism about data strategy. This worries IT managers in France, Spain and Japan. Meanwhile, in Australia and New Zealand they are concerned that it will cause inefficient use of data in the organization, and in Japan, because of a lack of visibility.
Sustainability has, however, become an unexpected cloud driver, with nearly 80% of managers citing the environment and its stewardship as critical to their cloud strategy. Of course, 84% of IT managers are concerned about ROI, indicating that in their company they expect their cloud strategy to deliver results.
49% of the IT executives surveyed indicate that when discussing the cloud strategy they want to apply, or that they have already implemented, concerns about costs frequently arise. In addition, survey participants view data regulation and compliance as drivers for the cloud, according to the NetApp report.
Over the next year, 37% of IT managers say that 50% or more of their cloud deployments will be supported by AI-powered applications. Almost 50% of the managers of companies with fewer than 250 employees expect to reach 50% in this over the next year, and 63% to achieve it by 2030.
By region, the United States surpasses EMEA and Asia-Pacific in plans to deploy AI-powered cloud applications. France and Japan are the countries in both regions in which there is the greatest progress in this regard. He AI scaling is top priority in EMEA and Asia-Pacificbut Second in the United States, behind regulatory compliance regulatory.
