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Business success in 2022 will hinge on optimizing the hybrid cloud
By John Pocknell, Senior Market Strategist at
Quest Software
2021 was a year of transformation at large. It
required monumental mindset shifts in the way we communicate, collaborate,
conduct business, innovate and more. As we head into 2022, that remote growth
mindset will continue to drive business success - and demand for data
intelligence, automated data management and data security solutions and
microservices in an optimized hybrid cloud environment will continue to
increase.
But there are particular industry trends that
will drive innovation more than others. Here are a few of the top trends that
business leaders should keep in mind in 2022, as you look to make the most of
your talent, technology, and multi cloud ecosystems:
Demand for self-service data prep and
analytics solutions will grow in response to the appetite for deeper business
insights.
According to research by Beroe, Inc., a leading
provider of procurement intelligence, the global business intelligence market
is estimated to reach $30.9 billion by 2022. As Beroe explains, "There is an increasing need
for Big Data Analytics as every day, the volume of big data creation amounts to
2.4 Quintillion bytes. The amount of data generated is expected to reach 40 ZB
by 2020. The exponential growth of data (volume, veracity, velocity) demands
excellent analytics to be able to derive meaningful insights."
In 2022, we expect to see a continuing growth in the demand for
self-service data prep and analytics in response to the appetite for greater
business insights. Companies will be looking for self-service data prep and analytics
tools that can be used by non-technical users and include data governance and
collaboration.
Remote
work will continue, as digital transformation enables greater collaboration at
scale.
According to IDC, by 2022, 70% of all organizations will have accelerated their
use of digital technologies, transforming existing business processes to drive
customer engagement, employee productivity, and power business resiliency. The
pandemic accelerated remote work over 12 months ago, and even as the new year
approaches, there's not much sign of things returning to normal any time soon.
In 2022, we'll see an increase in digital transformation
projects that provide better collaboration across multi-functional teams,
requiring stricter data governance and tighter security, while providing
enhanced cost/performance optimized hybrid data infrastructures.
Innovation
will continue to be fueled by the cloud.
The cloud will continue to drive innovation across industries. Market Research Future expects the Global Hybrid Cloud Market size to reach $173.33
billion by 2025. Additionally, according to the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report, 92% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy and 80% have a
hybrid cloud strategy currently in place, combining capabilities from both
public and private cloud domains. As Flexera shares, "Cloud-first policies and
cloud migration are top of mind for senior IT leaders, particularly in
enterprise environments. As a result, enterprises are rapidly increasing public
cloud spend and workload volumes."
We expect
to see a continuing increase in the adoption of hybrid- and multi-cloud
services in 2022, with the expectation from companies that they can integrate
their data across these environments as well as manage cloud spend and
performance more seamlessly across cloud environments.
Increasing cloud adoption will drive the use
of microservices and Kubernetes.
According to ResearchandMarkets.com, the cloud microservices market is expected to reach $2.7
billion by 2026. But as Kubernetes adoption rises, organizations are realizing
that adoption simply isn't enough - there needs to be company-wide changes made
in terms of processing, tooling, and architecture in order to realize its full
benefits. ResearchandMarkets.com elaborates,
"Kubernetes is likely to be a big push for deep company-wide changes. It
provides a good way to manage containers and makes microservices architectures
practical at an enterprise scale."
As demand for cloud services rises, we expect to see a
significant rise in the use of microservices and Kubernetes, for managing and
orchestrating microservices architectures, throughout 2022.
In short, innovation, digital transformation and business resiliency
will be determined by the hybrid cloud in 2022.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Pocknell is a senior market strategist at Quest Software. Based at the European headquarters in the U.K., John is responsible for developing and evangelizing solutions-based stories for Quest’s extensive portfolio of database products worldwide. He has been with Quest Software since 2000, working in database design, development, and deployment. John has spent over 18 years (including 12 years in Product Management) successfully evangelizing Toad to customers at conferences and user groups around the world. He blogs and has produced many videos for Toad World, the Toad user community, and has authored technical papers about Toad on the Quest Software website.