IDC maps enterprise cloud behaviour through to 2024

Cloud and cloud-centric operating models are now integral components of the modern IT environment. With the COVID-19 pandemic, all cloud promises – elastic consumption, agile development, and global reach – are being put to the test, said IDC in a mid-January statement.

“Cloud provides benefits such as flexibility, agility, reach and scalability; both in terms of being able to scale out quickly and scale down have become even more strategic and important to enterprises to adapt to changing business needs as we move forward towards a new normal under these pandemic impacted times,” said Daphne Chung, Research Director for Cloud Services and Software research at IDC Asia/Pacific.

Cloud's promises have led to the technology becoming the most strategic and widely-adopted technology to support remote working and innovation initiatives amid the pandemic, IDC said, from software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that cover collaboration and productivity to security point solutions. 

IDC believes that cloud platforms (public/hosted/private and recently introduced lifecycle as-a-service [LCaaS] compute, storage, and network bundles from IT suppliers) are also playing critical roles in helping enterprises react to the crisis, deal with the slowdown, and enable operational resiliency.

"Organisations of all sizes now see cloud as a critical component of their forward-looking IT strategy. IDC expects that early adopters of cloud and other digital technologies are best positioned to ride out this kind of storm with the least amount of disruption from an operational perspective," says Chris Morris, VP for Cloud & Partner Ecosystems research at IDC Asia/Pacific.

Some of the key cloud predictions that will impact the IT industry and both technology buyers and suppliers in Asia Pacific* are:

- Through 2022, all enterprises will struggle with application modernisation and data integration throughout cloud silos. Around 20% will adopt well-connected cloud strategies to overcome these concerns.

- By 2023, enterprises will have allocated 20% of new cloud services spending to cloud solutions that meet specific industry and ecosystem data-sharing requirements for their vertical segment.

- By 2024, over a quarter of new workloads deployed on public clouds will have used purpose-built silicon and infrastructure components from providers to optimise use case–specific requirements.

More cloud predictions for Asia Pacific are found in IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2021 Predictions —Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Implications (purchase needed).

*Excludes Japan.

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