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The State of Digital Transformation,

Enterprise IT and Multicloud Strategies


Mary Johnston Turner, IDC
Research Vice President, Enterprise Systems Management Software
October 2016

Business Agility Tops Todays


Enterprise IT Agendas
What are the most important drivers and requirements shaping
your organization's overall IT strategy from today through
2020?
Increase overall business agility
Maintain/improve security and compliance
Create more standardized IT environments
Increase use of automation
Increase digital engagement w/customers/ partners
Drive broad digital transformation
Leverage data & analytics to create new markets/biz
Engage more directly with customers and partners

Accelerate use of public cloud services


Execute hybrid/multi-cloud cloud strategy
Take greater advantage of open source innovation
Implement unified mgt across network, storage & computing

0.0 10.0 20.0 30.0 40.0 50.0 60.0 70.0


Source: Enterprise Cloud and DevOps
Management Survey, IDC, July, 2016
n=200 IT and DevOps decision makers

Percentage of respondents

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DevOps and Cloud Transform Markets


Increasing demand for
hosted and outsourced
private clouds as well as
multiple public cloud
services
Integration across
heterogeneous
generations of IT

Multi-cloud management
strategies allow
enterprises to manage
workloads consistently
Major cloud services
providers like Amazon,
Azure and Google are
gaining traction with
enterprises

Rising use of agile,


DevOps processes
and CI/CD strategies

Applications

Infrastructure

Increasing demand for


self service and full
stack automation
Need for consistent
SLAs, cost control and
compliance
Rising operational
complexity demands
greater levels of
automation and
analytics
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DevOps Expected to Increase Rate of Code Releases With Monthly


and Weekly Releases Becoming Much More Common
Q: Before and after DevOps deployment, how often, on average, did/does your organization
deploy or plan to deploy code releases?
Monthly or more often

After DevOps

Quartely or longer
Weekly
Monthly

33%

Before
DevOps

15%

67%

33%

Every 3
months

21%

Every 6
months
48%

After
DevOps

23%

Once a year

3%

52%
More than
once a year

0%

20%

40%
n = 100

60%

80%

Source: IDC, Early Adopter DevOps Survey, IDC, July, 2016


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5%
0%

20%
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40%
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Workload Requirements Drive


Infrastructure Choices
For each workload type please indicate which infrastructure platform you expect will provide primary computing
support for the workload by 2020.
IT operations & security workloads
CRM

Over the next three


years, IDC estimates
that the typical
enterprise will run 70
85% of workloads on
dedicated on-premise
or hosted
infrastructure
including private cloud
and traditional IT

Technical computing
Transaction processing
Corporate collaboration
Social/mobile engagement
Big data/analytics
DevOps
Content management/backup/data
E-commerce

Image/graphics processing
ERP
0%
Traditional on premise IT
Private cloud on premise
Public cloud IaaS/ PaaS

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Traditional hosted/ outsourced IT


Private cloud hosted/virtual
Public Cloud SaaS
N = 200
Source: IDC Multi-cloud Management Survey IDC, 2016
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Workload Characteristics
Dedicated workload characteristics

Stringent security, data protection and compliance needs


Support strategic business critical processes and information
Storage and compute intensive
Availability and latency sensitive
Highly predictable capacity requirements

Private cloud workload characteristics


Stringent security, data protection and compliance needs
Support strategic business critical processes and information
Resource requirements vary over time and resource sharing improves
economics
Requires developer and end user agility and self service automation

Public shared service cloud workload characteristics

Elastic capacity
Frequent application changes and updates
Mobile, web or IoT apps with global reach required
Business agility via self-service

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Majority of Enterprises Expect to Rely


on Multiple Clouds By 2020
In total, how many different clouds (public and/or private) do you
expect your total organization to use by 2020?

Source: IDC Multi-cloud Management Survey IDC, 2016

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CIOs Adopt IT-as-a-Service Strategies


LOB agility and end user empowerment
take priority
Application development = service
deployment
Mobile and SaaS benefit from continuous
delivery and offer initial points of
innovation
PaaS platforms, composable applications
and the API economy accelerate
deployments and updates

Infrastructure becomes hybrid,


dynamic, software defined and policydriven
Integrated, automated, open, full stack
management required
New processes, workflows and
collaborative business/IT governance
strategies

IT
Operations

IT centric

End user
empowerment

SLAs

Components

End to end
services

Workflows

Ad hoc &
manual

Automated &
self service

Multi-Cloud Management Expectations


Q: Please note the extent to which you agree with the following statements about your organization's
use of external cloud vendors:

Percentage of hybrid cloud users that agree or strongly agree with the
following expectations for managing multiple cloud vendors
The ability to migrate applications and data from our
data center to a Public Cloud and migrate applications
and data among multiple Cloud providers depending on
our business and IT requirements.

65%

The ability to automatically choose from multiple Cloud


providers leveraging a global catalog

58%

Act as brokers of IT services and dynamically


aggregate, customize and integrate Public and Private
Cloud services to meet the needs of the business.

55%

0%

10%

20%

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Source: IDC CloudView 2016, N=214 North American Hybrid Cloud Users

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

Goals for Effective Multi-Cloud Management


Resource and cost
optimization
End-user productivity
improvements
End-to-end
application
performance
consistency
Improved business
and IT
Source: IDC, IDC PeerScape: Hybrid Cloud Management Practices for Enabling Workload
Portability and Performance Across Public and Private Cloud Infrastructure, #256120
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Software Defined Infrastructure &


Automation Enables Cloud Strategies
Which of the following do you consider to be significant
IT benefits from software defined infrastructure

What is the role of SDI in your


organization's cloud strategy?

We do not have a
formal cloud
strategy, 2.0%

Improve security mgt/control


47.3%

Improve IT staff productivity

Helpful but not


critical , 28.0%

46.7%

Allow IT staff wider range of


responsibilities

34.7%

Support hybrid cloud


strategy

34.0%

Very important
enabler , 70.0%

N=300
Source: IDC Software Defined Infrastructure Survey, 2015

Support workload portability


across platforms

32.3%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%


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Top SDI Business Benefits


Better scalability

34.0%

Improved business agility

33.0%

Better disaster recovery/business continuity

32.0%

Faster service/application provisioning

31.3%

Improved ability to react to changing business

29.7%

Lower operating costs

29.0%

Higher application availability

25.7%

Better allocate IT staff to strategic/innovative

25.7%

Greater resource utilization/sharing

23.7%

Reduce number of vendors we work with

21.7%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

N=300, permitted to select up to three choices per respondent


Source: IDC Software Defined Infrastructure Survey, 2015

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Its All About the Business


Automated,

softwaredefined
infrastructure
empowers IT
teams to
more
efficiently
enable agile
business
initiatives

Our primary asset is our brand, and it depends on our

technology and network. Data protection and


confidentiality are the overriding factors. The first thing
that we always ask is, Whats the risk to the brand? Global Financial Services Chief Architect
Cost is not the driver faster time to market is a big
motive, as is compliance with regulatory requirements
and reforms. VP, senior solution architect, large
bank.
Automation is critical to our strategy. We are trying to
position ourselves as trusted advisors who can acquire
and integrate technologies. VP IT, worldwide media
and entertainment company
Many organizations think that public cloud will wash
away the problems they have with older equipment, but
these organizations dont really understand the true cost
of internal operations versus the high cost of public
cloud. IT director, diversified manufacturer.

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Enterprise IT Priorities: 2016-2020


Enable business agility and digital
transformation
Transform IT teams into strategic
service delivery organizations
Simplify management and increase
automation to reduce cost of
operations
Deliver critical services to end users
and customers faster with higher SLAs
and self service
Ensure mission critical availability and
business continuity
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Mary Johnston Turner


Research Vice President
Enterprise Systems Management
Software
508-395-3518
[email protected]
@MaryJTurner

2015 IDC Visit us at IDC.com

ToC

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Seed Questions
Mary, you talked about DevOps as driving change across the
enterprise based on your research, how quickly do you expect
enterprises to complete this shift to DevOps?
Mary, you talked about the importance of taking a workload centric
view to crafting infrastructure strategies. In your opinion, what are
the most important workload characteristics that an enterprise
should consider?
Based on your research, how will the use of containers and
microservices impact the use of DevOps and multicloud
architecture?

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