The cloud debate is over according to an IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) Cloud and Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure survey conducted by research firm McKinsey. According to the report more businesses are moving a material portion of their IT workloads to cloud environments.
The survey looked at the pace of migration to the cloud among other things and results showed that enterprises are planning to transition IT workloads at a significant rate with an overall shift from build to consume. This will see considerable growth for off-premise environments.
“In particular, enterprises plan to reduce the number of workloads housed in on-premise traditional and virtualised environments, while dedicated private cloud, virtual private cloud, and public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) are expected to see substantially higher rates of adoption.”
Large enterprises in particular are likely to move workloads away from traditional and virtualised environments toward the cloud at a rate and pace that is expected to be far quicker than in the past. This is great news for cloud service providers of off-premise cloud infrastructure.
Digitisation driving the shift
The reason for this rapid adoption comes from the increasing need for businesses to digitise their operations. Most of the respondents in the McKinsey study were from regulated industries, such as banking, insurance, and healthcare, and faced significant pressure to introduce digital capabilities. The cloud is a critical foundation for enabling this digitisation.
Benefits in time to market and quality are key driving factors for businesses moving to the cloud even outweighing benefits in cost.
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Resource: McKinsey