*By Deepak Mohan
1.There will be more deliberations on cloud budgets in 2023
According to the Veritas Research, 94% of organizations are overspending on the cloud and are exceeding their allocated budgets by an average of 43%. As the amount of data continues to grow year after year, so does the cost of storing it in the cloud, which makes it even harder to justify. While most companies have realized advanced business strategies through cloud adoption, CEOs and boards will increasingly demand transparency around the ROI of cloud spending.
With many economists predicting a continued slowdown in the coming year, IT overspending is expected to intensify further in 2023, which will put pressure on IT leaders to justify their cloud budgets as they identify new ways to reduce data volumes. This can lead to more effective data management and storage strategies, such as techniques to stop duplication and ensure reduced storage consumption.
2. Low code/no code applications will create compliance issues
Low-code/no-code application development has been instrumental in democratizing application development in enterprises. By 2023, low-code/no-code adoption will become mainstream and non-technical employees (non-professional developers) in any organization will be empowered to build their own app. While this will significantly ease the burden on IT teams, it will also create a huge compliance risk for organizations. Since non-professional developers do not have the same experience in implementing security and privacy, most of the applications they develop will not be properly protected and protection policies may be applied inaccurately. As a result, organizations will not only face compliance issues, but their applications can also open up new vulnerabilities for malicious actors to exploit.
3.Supply chain shortages to put pressure on software vendors
Software has been at the forefront of innovation, with vendors delivering new solutions quickly to market. However, the lack of hardware availability will make this a challenge in 2023. Geopolitical restrictions and chip shortages have severely impacted the supply chain – especially when it comes to hardware delivery. Due to these delays and the inability to deliver on time, customers have struggled to implement software and hardware together to create working solutions. To counteract these supply chain issues in 2023, look for customers to adopt cloud-based solutions and devices — with hardware and software already bundled together — rather than having to manage multiple relationships and wait for the hardware to arrive.
4. Cross-cloud data mobility will become prevalent
Currently, more than 75% of organizations use multiple public cloud services. While there are numerous benefits to a multi-cloud strategy, such as flexibility and agility, interoperability remains a challenge for data managers — not only is it expensive to move data from cloud to cloud, but also when clouds don't work together seamlessly, this creates silos within an organization and can create major security vulnerabilities. To keep pace with cloud offerings and meet business-driven cloud goals, enterprises will begin leveraging AI/ML and autonomous solutions to help mitigate the challenges of siled workloads and enhance cloud interoperability by means of data portability. As organizations work to address interoperability challenges and gain more control in the cloud, cross-cloud data mobility will become more common in 2023.
5.More edge devices means more vulnerabilities
The Gartner predict that by 2025 more than 50% of data managed by the company will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud. As data processing moves ever further to the edge, it complicates IT architecture and increases the attack surface. Additionally, companies often don't apply the same level of protection at the edge as they do in the data center or cloud, often due to a lack of skills and personnel. To fully protect the enterprise, each of these edge devices needs to be secured and backed up. Additionally, organizations need to determine which data coming from edge devices is critical versus non-critical to maintaining storage and protection costs, understanding the added scrutiny of IT budgets.
6.Kubernetes becomes mission critical
Over the past 24 months, Kubernetes has become popular. Containers are now being adopted in mission-critical environments, which means that the application environment and the underlying data in those environments now needs protection. As a result, ownership of these containers and securing them has become more complex, creating silos and confusion about who is responsible: the backup admin or the DevOps admin. At the same time, organizations are struggling to identify which containers to back up and how to back them up, which is likely to lead to further investment in training to help fill the Kubernetes skills gap. In 2023, IT departments will continue to figure out how to properly secure and back up their Kubernetes environments.
*Deepak Mohan, Executive Vice President of Engineering, Veritas Technologies
Notice: The opinion presented in this article is the responsibility of its author and not of ABES - Brazilian Association of Software Companies
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