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Survey Shows More than 50 Percent of Businesses Not Leveraging Public Cloud
While more than 50 percent of respondents are not currently leveraging
public cloud, 80 percent plan on migrating more within the next year,
according to a new study conducted by TriCore
Solutions, the application management experts. As new streams of
data are continuing to appear, from mobile apps to artificial
intelligence, companies in the future will rely heavily on cloud and
digital transformation to minimize complexity.
The study is based on survey results from more than 200 industry
professionals. The research outlines businesses state of operations,
biggest changes expected and greatest needs for the digital age. Today's
CIO understands the delicate balance between managing for today's
demands and preparing for the technology solutions of tomorrow.
Here are some key results from the survey:
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Public Cloud Considerations: Cloud initiatives are underway for
companies in the mid-market up through the Fortune 500, though IT
leaders continue to struggle with what to migrate, when to migrate,
and how best to execute the process. More than half of those surveyed
plan to migrate web applications and development systems to the public
cloud in the next year, prioritizing these over other migrations. More
than two thirds have 25 percent or less of their infrastructure in the
public cloud, showing that public cloud still has far to go before it
becomes the prevailing environment that IT leaders must manage. With
increasingly complex hybrid environments, managed service providers
will become a more important resource to help facilitate the process.
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Running Smarter Still on Prem: Whether running on Oacle EBS,
PeopleSoft or SAP (News - Alert), companies rely on ERP systems to run their
businesses. Only 20 percent of respondents expect to migrate ERP
systems to public cloud in the next year, indicating the importance of
hybrid cloud environments for companies to manage business-critical
operations on premise alongside other applications and platforms in
the public cloud.
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Addressing the IT Talent Gap: As public cloud demands grow, and
IT infrastructure continues to merge, application and development
support will play an increasingly larger role for IT departments. According
to the survey, 56 percent of respondents agree or strongly agree that
filling gaps in IT talent is a concern, while nearly half agree or
strongly agree that acquiring talent for legacy systems is a major
need.
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Prepping for Digital Transformation: With the increased amount
of data in today's IT environment - from machine data to social media
data to transactional data and everything in between - the need for
managed service providers to make sense of it all has never been more
important. 53 percent of respondents plan on outsourcing their IT
infrastructure in the future, and respondents anticipate a nearly 20
percent increase in applications being outsourced in the future, as
well.
"These findings should send a clear message to IT professionals on where
the industry is heading," said Mark Clayman, CEO and President of
TriCore Solutions. "As worldwide spending on cloud continues to grow,
and with the increased amount of data in today's IT environment, IT
leaders need to heavily consider the keys to IT success when migrating
to a cloud-based environment. Understanding how to help businesses
unlock and leverage the endless data available to them, will drive IT
success for managed service providers in 2017 and beyond.
To learn more about the study and how you can prepare your IT team for
present and future in the digital age, visit
here.
About TriCore Solutions
TriCore Solutions, the application management experts, provides a full
suite of scalable and reliable managed application, cloud and
infrastructure hosting, and consulting services to enterprise
organizations. With 16 years of experience, the Company delivers its
services and the TriCore Trusted Promise to more than 260
enterprise-class companies worldwide to reduce costs, raise service
levels, improve customer experience, increase business agility, and
accelerate innovation, unlocking the business value from their IT
investments. Our partners include industry leaders such as Oracle, SAP,
Microsoft, AWS, IBM, HP and EMC (News - Alert). TriCore Solutions is headquartered in
Boston, MA, with offices in India and throughout North America. For more
information, please visit www.tricoresolutions.com
and @tricorenow on Twitter (News - Alert).
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