A
new LogicMonitor survey of nearly 300 industry influencers predicts
that enterprises will migrate the majority of their IT workloads from
the data center to the cloud by 2020. Fueling this transition will be
the 20.8 billion IoT devices Gartner predicts will come online, and the rapid maturation of AI and machine learning technologies. The Future of the Cloud Study also
finds that while Amazon holds a dominant leadership position in the
public cloud market, Microsoft and Google are closing that gap.
LogicMonitor, the leading SaaS-based performance monitoring platform for
Enterprise IT, sponsored the survey, polling both AWS re:Invent
attendees and industry analysts, media, consultants and vendor
strategists to explore what the landscape for cloud services will look
like in 2020. "Our customers continue to ask for guidance in planning
their cloud migration strategies," said Jeff Behl, Chief Product Officer
for LogicMonitor. "We designed our survey to gather feedback from some
key industry influencers to understand their predictions, and to provide
our customers with insights and answers."
Steady Migration to the Cloud
Survey
results confirm that in the short term, 37 percent of all IT workloads
will continue to run predominantly on-premises, and 31 percent will run
in the public cloud. However, over the next two years, the percentage of
premises-based workloads will drop to 27 percent and workloads running
in the public cloud will grow to 41 percent with the balance running on
private or hybrid clouds. When will 95 percent of all workloads run in
the cloud? That's 10-15 years out but acceleration could pull it in.
The
survey asked respondents about the key drivers of this transition: 63
percent cited Digital Transformation followed closely by IT Agility (62
percent) and DevOps (58 percent). This changes dramatically by 2020 when
AI and Machine Learning takes the lead followed by IoT.
The Competition Intensifies
Respondents
also expect the market to grow increasingly competitive as Microsoft
Azure and Google Cloud Platform gain ground on Amazon Web Services
(AWS). Gartner's research shows
Amazon holds a 44 percent share of the overall cloud IaaS market,
followed by Microsoft at 7 percent, Alibaba, 3 percent and Google
trailing at 2 percent today.
Overcoming the Skills Shortage
The
third largest public cloud challenge cited by respondents was that IT
staff lacks cloud experience. More than a third also cited lack of
visibility.
To
get ahead of this, Enterprises should make it easy for IT professionals
to gain complete situational awareness of all technologies in their IT
stack by answering basic questions like:
- Is the technology working?
- Is performance meeting SLAs?
- Is everything within capacity limits?
One
way to quickly gain situational awareness is to consider a SaaS-based
performance monitoring solution that monitors everything from the data
center up to and including cloud services, such as the LogicMonitor
platform. "Traditionally, organizations have used various monitoring
tools to keep tabs on different parts of their technology," said Steve
Francis, Founder and Chief Evangelist, LogicMonitor. "Organizations
really need an end-to-end monitoring solution that automatically
monitors both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure, services and
apps to truly understand what's going on so they can continue to be
agile and proactive."
To view the full report, "Future of the Cloud Study" please visit the LogicMonitor website.