The context:
Understanding the impact of today’s challenges
IT organisations want to get their pre-pandemic transformation programmes back on track, and concentrate on introducing new revenue-generating products and services.
But a number of different challenges mean that IT teams are spending less time, rather than more, on higher value projects.
Keeping the lights on…less
IT organisations spend up to
of their time and budget supporting apps and infrastructure that are already in place.
In fact, the cost of ‘keeping the lights on’ is seen as a major obstacle to innovation by
of IT and business leaders; and
Combating cloud complexity
The rush to migrate workloads onto public clouds hasn’t always achieved the desired results, as it often leads to increased management complexity for the IT team to deal with.
So much so that 73% of organisations are moving their applications out of public clouds and back on-prem, and adopting a hybrid cloud approach.2 But even repatriating workloads doesn’t make the time and cost of managing them go away.
Enabling agility
There’s no question that workloads can be deployed in public clouds more quickly than in your data centre – ideal when you’re launching new apps and updates. But even then, as 451 Research points out,3 sizing and placing workloads across a large hybrid cloud environment creates yet another complex and time-consuming task for your IT team. While over-provisioning cloud instances can easily lead to wasted costs.
Addressing IT resource and skills shortages
While more than 90% of IT leaders plan to expand their cloud environments, 80% say that inadequate employee skills are holding them back.2
With specialist cloud skills in critically short supply, it’s essential for your organisation to get the most from the talent you already have, as well as maximising your people’s job satisfaction in order to reduce turnover.