By: Lex Boost,
CEO, Leaseweb USA
Global hybrid solutions have made quite an impact in the past
several years and there's reason to believe 2020 will see this trend continue.
Businesses began turning to hybrid solutions about six years ago as they sought
to leverage the direct benefits of both a private and public cloud
environments. Augmenting the traditional private cloud with the power and
resources of the public cloud, companies began to manage any bursts in
activity. Over the years, hybrid cloud adoption has grown to 58 percent and
over two-thirds of organizations utilize private cloud solutions along with
on-premise and public cloud options.
As a whole, the traditional IT industry - be it software, IT or
hardware vendors - are understanding the necessity to shift to managed
services. From cost benefits to increases in speed and protection, industry
experts from Leaseweb Global foresee
2020 as the year of hybrid solutions.
Alexander Kalkman, CMO, Leaseweb
Global
"In 2020, organizations are going to recognize and value the power
of metal: The power of a bare metal server. A physical server dedicated to a
physical single tenant, will always out-perform a public cloud environment.
Why? These servers' tenants will be able to optimize according to customizable
needs for performance, security and reliability. This high level of flexibility
translates to both cost and manageability effectiveness.
"We anticipate seeing this coupled with the rise of managed global
hybrid solutions in 2020. Starting from a business perspective, across
industries we are seeing the need to reach the eyeballs and this is manifesting
in a global approach to business. They either consolidate or are bought out.
They will expand into other regions because the software is global. The
natural corresponding element, especially in industries with a heavy data
footprint, is to see the data infrastructure go global as well. For example, if
you look at MarTech space, VCs have been investing heavily in various companies
to make them grow globally. The rise of managed global hybrids in 2020 will
fill this market need: the need to have secure, reliable, global access to
global data."
Robert van der Meulen, product strategy lead, Leaseweb
Global
"When companies start looking at more hybrid environments, it will
start to make much more sense to migrate into a data center. Starting in 2019
and what will be continuing in 2020 is that there will be many companies that
start decommissioning their on-premise environments and continue transitioning
to managing cloud infrastructure. This shift will spark a digital
transformation for many companies.
The traditional IT industry-be it software, IT or hardware
providers/vendors-are finally more fully understanding the necessity to shift
to managed services. Researchers and industry experts predicted that 2018 and
2019 would be the years of the big shift-where managed services became more
prevalent. We saw that transpire. And we are beginning to see a shift in the
preparedness and structure of the sales representatives and within the channel.
2020 will be the year that the IT channel shifts significantly into a
more managed services friendly environment."
Mathijs Heikamp, team lead of product management, Leaseweb
Global
"The safety and security of data is going to continue to evolve in
2020, increasing every organization's and application's need to strategically
reevaluate the security of their own data. In 2020, companies will choose
infrastructure environments that meet all of their company's needs, including
cybersecurity and ransomware protection.
Hybrid cloud solutions
allow organizations increased control of their data on a secure platform, and
companies will continue to adopt this infrastructure model because of these
benefits. For businesses with highly sensitive data, hosting providers can
establish a dedicated server for the specific company with some of the best in
security technology. Hosting providers can also serve as an expert resource
regarding the inner workings of provided security protocols, easing the
expertise burden placed on organizations while ensuring they remain up-to-date
on security best-practices."
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