Gartner Announces Increased Cloud Computing

 

Gartner announced that by 2020 companies that do not use cloud computing will be as rare as those that do not use the Internet today. Cloud-first and Cloud-only strategies have replaced the defensive stance of not adopting Cloud computing that has dominated many large providers in recent years. Today, most technological innovations for vendors are cloud-centric with the clear purpose of feeding back the technology of on-premises solutions. This topic will be widely debated at the Symposium/ITxpo 2016, the largest and most important Gartner global event for CIOs and technology executives, which takes place between October 24th and 27th, at the Sheraton São Paulo WTC Hotel (SP).
 
"Many companies without Cloud computing end up using Cloud unnoticed or unavoidably, a posture that will become increasingly unsustainable. The Cloud will become the default option for software deployment and the same will happen with customized programs, which have been increasingly developed for some variations of Public or Private Clouds," says Jeffrey Mann, vice president of Research at Gartner.
 
This does not mean that everything will be cloud-based. Concerns will remain valid in some cases. However, the practice of not having anything cloud-based will largely disappear. The Cloud will commonly be used in a hybrid fashion, but this requires the Public Cloud to be part of the overall strategy. Technology providers will be able to assume that their customers will be able to use cloud resources.
 
According to Gartner, by 2019, more than 30% of new software investments by the top 100 vendors will have switched from Cloud-first to Cloud-only. The now well-established stance of using Cloud-first in software planning and design is gradually being replaced by the Cloud-only strategy. This also applies to Hybrid and Private Cloud scenarios.
 
"Modern IT resources will only be available in the Cloud, making the most reluctant companies move closer to adopting the technology. While some applications and data will remain trapped in older formats, newer solutions will be Cloud-based, increasing the demand for integration of different infrastructures", says Yefim V. Natis, Vice President and Fellow at Gartner.
 
"Rigid companies are not capable of producing agile IT solutions. As delivery becomes more cloud-based, most IT companies need to reorganize themselves to reflect the business reality of Cloud Computing: continuous innovation and change, comprehensive integration, competing with Cloud providers in some initiatives and crucial dominance of influence rather than control in IT's relationship with various lines of business.While, historically, the greatest competition from external service providers is internal IT, with spending changes, structural reorganizations and the aforementioned commercial realities, Cloud providers will gain a prominent position", adds Natis.
 
By 2020, more computing power will have been sold by Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers than technologies sold and deployed in corporate data centers. The IaaS market has shown a 40% growth in revenue per year since 2011 and is forecast to continue to grow over 25% per year through 2019. By the same year, most virtual machines will be delivered by IaaS providers. By 2020, IaaS and PaaS revenue will exceed US$ 55 billion, passing server billing.
 
"With the growth of bimodal computing offerings and cloud providers, software-defined enterprise data centers have become less important than developing a solid multi-provider management capability. on-premises or hosted in your Data Center. However, as computing power migrates to IaaS providers, companies and vendors need to focus on managing and leveraging the hybrid mix of on-premises, off-premises, Cloud and non-Cloud, with a focus on managing capacity delivered in the Cloud efficiently and effectively", adds Thomas J. Bittman, vice president and analyst emeritus at Gartner.