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13 Feb

Potential Opportunity Worth US$80 Billion Opening Up in Cloud Computing

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The global cloud computing market is expected to be valued at US$947 Bn by 2026, owing to the increased adoption of hybrid cloud services, increased emphasis on multi-cloud strategy, and shift of enterprises toward the adoption of digital transformation and accelerating customer experience.

Source: Big News Network

Disruption – With the advent of Hyperconvergence infrastructure, Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service, the Rise of Containers, and the use of AI in cloud and data center is creating a potential opportunity worth US$80 Billion. The global cloud computing market is expected to be valued at US$947 Billion by 2026, owing to the increased adoption of hybrid cloud services, increased emphasis on multi-cloud strategy, and shift of enterprises toward the adoption of digital transformation and accelerating customer experience. By 2025, 70% of enterprise workloads will be running on the cloud infrastructure.

According to MarketsandMarkets analysis,

  • The cloud computing market is estimated to grow at a healthy CAGR of 16-17% in the coming 5 years, driven by the rising focus on delivering customer-centric applications for driving customer satisfaction.
  • North America, Europe, and APAC are expected to be the leading regions in terms of cloud computing adoption, innovation, and development.
  • There is ~USD 950 Bn potential within cloud computing service models, more than half of which is contributed by Software-as-a-Service.
  • MHealth, Internet of Medical Things, and remote patient monitoring are driving the growth of cloud computing opportunities in healthcare.

Currently, businesses have low access to primary intelligence to clarify some unknowns and adjacencies in these opportunity areas –

  • Storage automation technologies and usage of AI for storing and managing data in cloud. Blockchain storage structures are being used for cloud storage. Cloud storage will be in demand for storing real-time data feed from sensors and surveillance, medical imaging, data generated from wearables, autonomous vehicle, and V2V communication.
  • As businesses transitioned from office to remote operations, demand for remote desktop infrastructure and SaaS-based applications, Office 365, G Suite, Dropbox, Slack, Zoom, Salesforce CRM, and other business continuity and disaster recovery solutions surged.
  • Rise in demand for cloud-based collaboration and business continuity tools and services to support remote workforce. Surge in demand for Container platforms for application dev/dep, smart contract applications on cloud environment.
  • Emerging use cases – frictionless check-out, conversational AI, virtual fitting room to manage retail operations, with minimal human intervention. Companies are increasingly embracing AI and blockchain-based technologies to fight fraud and identity thefts.
  • As the effect of the pandemic in April 2020, IBM lowered its prices on bare metal servers across the globe and included up to 20TB of bandwidth with new competitive prices.

Some of the growth problems encountered by cloud computing companies are:

Customer prioritization and assessing unmet needs:

  • Identify emerging customer preference trends for cloud applications and identify current gaps in market.
  • What are the disruptions in our clients’ businesses? How can we support them for our own growth?
  • What are the prominent use cases that would drive the cloud computing market in the next 5 years?
  • What are the key unmet needs of customers? Who are the key stakeholders in different settings? Do vendor selection criteria differ by settings? Which new product features should be added to the existing products?

Where to play:

  • Which service model should we focus on? Should it be SaaS, PaaS or IaaS? What are the emerging use cases in the cloud computing ecosystem?
  • Which regions should we place our bets on? What are the regional specific trends and developments that are shaping the adoption of cloud applications?
  • What are the key trends that will shape the cloud computing market in the future?

Building a compelling Right-to-Win (RTW):

  • For M&A, which are the right targets for us? Should we target solution providers or service providers? Should we enter new markets directly or through partners?
  • How can we differentiate from top players? What is their right-to-win vs ours?

Key uncertainties/perspectives which industry leaders seek answers to:

For cloud computing companies:

  • What application areas will be relevant and redundant in the next 5 years?
  • How does the architectural framework/business model/value chain of the edge computing market look like over the coming year?
  • What are the key differentiators/features we can add in our products to make more lucrative to our customers?
  • How can companies optimize the manufacturing processes to be more agile and efficient to achieve a more seamless workflow?
  • What regulatory policies can help strategize and achieve volumetric scale-up?
  • Which region is the largest in terms of market opportunities now and in the future?

For Companies in Adjacent markets:

  • What application areas will be relevant and redundant in the next 5 years?
  • How does the architectural framework/business model/value chain of the edge computing market look like over the coming year?
  • What are the key differentiators/features we can add in our products to make more lucrative to our customers?
  • How can companies optimize the manufacturing processes to be more agile and efficient to achieve a more seamless workflow?
  • What regulatory policies can help strategize and achieve volumetric scale-up?
  • Which region is the largest in terms of market opportunities now and in the future?

Therefore, MarketsandMarkets research and analysis focuses on high-growth markets and emerging technologies, which will become ~80% of the revenues of cloud computing players from the ecosystem in the next 5–10 years. It helps find blind spots in clients’ revenue decisions because of interconnections and unknowns that impacting clients and their client’s clients.

12 Feb

Study Shows Australia Leads The World On Multicloud Adoption

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Source: scoop.co.nz

Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, has announced the Australian findings of its fourth Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report. It showed Australian adoption of multicloud technologies has already reached 39 percent, beating the global average of 36 percent and set to soar to 66 percent this year.

Security remains both the main driver and challenge to achieving multicloud triumph in Australia, contributing to a 64 percent surge in investment into security systems in Australia. And while 92 percent named hybrid multicloud as the ideal IT operating environment, 27 percent of Australian organisations remain wedded to a single public cloud provider – compared with 16 percent globally – amplifying security concerns and limiting Australia’s cloud skillset development, according to Nutanix Australia and New Zealand Managing Director Jim Steed.

“Australia is in an interesting position on the global cloud field,” said Steed. “On one hand, it’s a true multicloud leader, ahead of the pack on building tomorrow’s preferred IT environment. On the other, we see too many businesses wedded to one public cloud provider to manage their infrastructure. What happens when that provider has an outage? How can IT leaders manage sovereignty concerns when the vast majority of the market belongs to multinational providers? IT engineers also need variety, not myopia, in the cloud skillsets they develop.”

Survey respondents were asked about their current cloud challenges, how they’re running business applications now and where they plan to run them in the future. Respondents were also asked about the impact of the pandemic on recent, current, and future IT infrastructure decisions and how IT strategy and priorities may change as a result.

Other key Australian findings from the report include:

  • Apps on the move: Every Australian respondent has moved applications between IT environments in the past year, with a need to increase the speed of app development the primary reason. However, 83 percent said it was costly and time consuming.
  • Full-time office all but gone: The 2021 report’s prediction that only 2 percent of staff would return full time to the office in 2022 is coming to fruition – only 3 percent of enterprises maintained a full-time office policy when restrictions permitted in the last year, and most organisations have between 50 percent and 100 percent of their staff working remotely.
  • Top challenges in current IT infrastructure: 85 percent of Australian respondents said cost control was their biggest challenge; followed by data security, privacy, and compliance (74 percent); and the ability to support remote workers (73 percent).
  • Australian IT teams better at staying within budget: While 24 percent of Australian respondents said they spent over their annual IT budget, this was well under the global average of 37 percent as IT spend continues to surge worldwide.
  • Important skills still lagging: 82 percent of Australian organisations lack some of the internal IT skills required to meet business demands, with automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), and containerisation the top skills businesses want to grow.
  • IT’s organisational value continues to surge: In the last report, 78 percent of respondents saw IT as more strategic to the business – this has risen to 82 percent in this report as IT increasingly becomes an essential function to drive business activity in a more digital economy.

For the fourth consecutive year, Vanson Bourne conducted research on behalf of Nutanix, surveying 1,700 IT decision-makers around the world in August and September 2021. The respondent base spanned multiple industries and business sizes in Australia, other parts of Asia-Pacific, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

To learn more about the Australian report and findings, please view the full global report, see here.

About Nutanix

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making clouds invisible, freeing customers to focus on their business outcomes. Organisations around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app at any location for their hybrid multicloud environments. Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on social media @nutanix.

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12 Feb

Top 5 Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Use Cases For 2022

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From mission-critical applications to hybrid cloud deployments, CRN breaks down the top five biggest use cases for hyperconverged infrastructure expected in 2022.

Source: CRN.com
By Mark Haranas

IT teams will continue to turn to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to modernize their infrastructure, applications and hybrid cloud environments in 2022, with HCI expected to drive containers, disaggregated resourcing and public cloud integration strategies this year.

“More often than not, enterprises are now modernizing in place to support applications and processes rather than migrating everything to cloud, since hybrid environments ultimately provide a more dynamic and flexible IT experience than either private or public clouds alone,” said Christian Perry, senior research analyst covering IT infrastructure at 451 Research, in a recently published report.

The research firm’s new report is based off its ‘Hyperconverged Infrastructure Strategy, & Workloads’ study that it conducted on IT organizations around HCI deployments, market trends and use cases. In 2022, the research firm expects that a majority of HCI deployments across all major industries will be driven by five main use cases: edge deployments, mission-critical applications, disaster recovery, modern applications and hybrid cloud.

“Our research shows that HCI is up for the task, as steady innovation across all of these areas now positions HCI as highly effective infrastructure for transitioning to modern IT operations,” said Perry. “HCI may appear to be simply a one-stop shop for the latest and greatest infrastructure technologies, but the reality is far deeper, as current HCI users are leaning on it heavily as a holistic [solution] for IT transformation, both inside and outside of their data centers.”

Modern Applications, Kubernetes

HCI has evolved to support modern applications that are integrated across private, hybrid and public clouds. Organizations are turning to HCI to consolidate application deployment on a platform engineered for the nuances of modern or cloud-native requirements.

According to 451 Research’s study, 45 percent of organizations using HCI have deployed Kubernetes on their hyperconverged platforms in 2021, up from 29 percent in 2020. Another 33 percent of organizations have Kubernetes on HCI in the proof-of-concept stage.

Specifically, businesses are now using HCI along with Kubernetes to accelerate software updates, enable microservices, ease deployment of stateless and stateful applications, as well as shift on-premises applications to public cloud environments.

Hybrid Cloud

Most forward-looking organizations are striving create a hybrid cloud IT environment for their businesses, which is one of the most challenging things to do given the difficulty in managing all of the various products and components. Hyperconverged infrastructure has emerged as a logical choice for hybrid cloud deployments due to HCI’s inherently simplified design and ease of management that customers can quickly deploy without the need for specialized skills.

When integrated natively with broader virtualization, container and cloud platforms, HCI not only becomes a one-stop shop for application deployment across the enterprise, but also for flexible resource deployment in any location.

According to 451 Research, 45 percent of respondents who implemented HCI for hybrid cloud said they like the easy IT resource scaling in response to changing circumstances, while 41 percent said HCI helped consolidate different IT environments under a single management framework.

Edge Computing And ROBO

Edge computing is becoming a major investment for organizations seeking to capitalize on opportunities beyond core data centers and major public cloud regions. There are many challenges to deploying stand-alone servers, storage and networking products at edge locations, such as scaling limitations and complex management. HCI is a strong use case for edge computing due to intrinsic design that can eliminate complexity challenges.

Approximately 33 percent of respondents deployed HCI in remote office/branch office (ROBO) locations in 2021, up from 19 percent in 2020, according to 451 Research’s study. Around 15 percent of respondents deployed HCI in edge locations in 2021, up from 9 percent in 2020.

This growth in edge and ROBO locations is due to hyperconverged infrastructure’s deployment options capabilities to fit almost any environment, regardless of space limitations as well as its strength in remote management.

Mission-Critical Applications

According to 451 Research’s study, 41 percent of respondents said they are leveraging HCI for database and data warehousing critical workloads, as well as for data analytics and business intelligence workloads. Approximately 39 percent of respondents were leveraging HCI for cybersecurity workloads, while 30 percent use HCI for CRM around sales and marketing.

HCI is now a proven solution to simplify IT environments and optimize critical workloads like Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle databases, Microsoft Exchange or SAP HANA. The market leading vendors in this space—such as Dell Technologies, VMware, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo and Nutanix—continue to improve the performance, scalability and management of these applications.

Disaster Recovery

Nearly one-third of surveyed organizations had experienced an outage in the past two years, with 61 percent saying outages have cost their businesses over $100,000.

Heavier data consumption is challenging traditional models for disaster recovery (DR) solution which are not always designed to support hybrid cloud ecosystems and the requirements of cloud-native applications. HCI continues to fill the gaps with native DR integration designed to be flexible with modern, cloud-heavy requirements.

Disaster recovery integrated into HCI platforms require no specialized management tools or connections, which benefits DR and other remote sites with limited or no local IT staff. DR benefits from HCI’s built-in automation and testing that lets managers quickly assign IP address changes during failover and consistently test their DR plans without disruption.