Companies dabbled with several different clouds that created complexity, says Boville
Indian organizations are experiencing enterprise-scale improvements by harnessing the power of a hybrid cloud architecture to digitize their existing products and services, enhance customer experience, increase business resiliency and reduce security risks,” according to IBM India Managing Director Sandip Patel.
“We are witnessing Indian organizations experience enterprise-scale improvements by harnessing the power of a Hybrid cloud architecture to digitize their existing products and services, enhance customer experience, increase business resiliency and reduce security risks,” he said in a release on IBM global study on latest trends in adopting technologies.
“As organizations progress on their journey to the cloud, adopting hybrid, multicloud has become essential and is a clear winner in the race to become the dominant architecture for enterprise cloud estates in India,” said Patel.
The study said 80% of global and Indian respondents to an IBM survey said data security being embedded throughout the cloud architecture is important or extremely important, in most cases, to successful digital initiatives.
Security concerns posed as a significant obstacle to improving business performance in some, most or all parts of their cloud estate for 54% of respondents in India, according to the IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) study, findings of which were announced on 29 Oct 2021.
Nearly 79% of global respondents and 71% of Indian respondents said workloads being completely portable with no vendor lock-in is important or extremely important to the success of their digital initiatives.
Nearly 69% of global respondents and 68% of Indian respondents said vendor lock-in is a significant obstacle to improving business performance in most or all parts of their cloud estate.
Also, 63% of the Indian respondents said lack of interoperability among clouds is a significant obstacle to improving business performance in some, most or all parts of their cloud estate.
Nearly 64% of respondents from India said workloads being completely portable, where developers can build, run and move workloads across private and public clouds, is important or extremely important for the success of their digital initiatives.
Seventy-Four per cent of the Indian respondents highlighted that the ability to run Governance and compliance tools across multiple clouds is important or extremely important to the success of their digital initiatives.
“In the beginning of their cloud journey, many companies dabbled with several different clouds that created complexity and disconnected piece parts, potentially opening them up to major security threats,” said Howard Boville, Head of IBM Cloud Platform.
“Today’s findings reiterate that security, governance and compliance tools must run across multiple clouds and be embedded throughout hybrid cloud architectures from the onset for digital transformations to be successful,” said Boville.
The global study, conducted by IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) in cooperation with Oxford Economics, surveyed almost 7,200 C-suite executives across 28 industries and 47 countries including 287 executives from India. The findings indicate that the cloud market has entered the hybrid, multicloud era and concerns around vendor lock-in, security, compliance and interoperability remain paramount. #technology #investment /fiinews.com
