Research

Abstract:

As enterprises digitally transform and IT environments become more dispersed across multiple public clouds and on-premises data centers, the process of moving data, applications, and workloads to and from various locations quickly becomes regular practice. Moving just one application to and from a location can be difficult, time-consuming, and expensive, in most cases requiring a week or more. For large environments, the costs can be significant. As a result, organizations must take a more deliberative, evaluative approach to moving data and applications when migrating to the cloud and across clouds.

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Reports of the data center's demise have been grossly exaggerated. On-premises data centers are alive and thriving, with the average number of on-premises locations under management expected to increase over the next five years. The future of the data center, however, will look very different from today. Enterprises in the throes of modernizing their application infrastructure and migrating to the cloud are increasingly realizing they also need a cloud-like experience for on-premises data centers and improved public cloud connectivity with consumption-based procurement models.

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Developer velocity – the speed at which new applications can be developed and deployed – often determines success for digital transformation and digital business initiatives. Many businesses, however, don't have the infrastructure in place to optimize application development efforts and fully maximize the potential of these initiatives. Given the prominent role that IT transformation plays in digital transformation initiatives, businesses need to take a holistic "infrastructure-out" approach to their digital transformation journeys, with a focus on regular and constant collaboration between IT operations and application development teams.

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As enterprises digitally transform, business application environments scale at an accelerated pace and become more distributed not only in the cloud, but also on premises. As a result, a siloed approach to infrastructure and operations is no longer viable. The tendency among many organizations is to view migration to the cloud as the sole remedy for simplifying operations and increasing the velocity of app development. However, on-premises application environments are alive and well, and the data center is far from dead. Therefore, standing still is not an option for data center environments, where app modernization strategies need to reflect the transformation activities of existing and net-new applications in multiple environments while overcoming integration challenges in a variety of cloud and on-premises locations.

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IT operations teams continue to strive to improve collaboration with developers on building modern application architectures. As companies accelerate or embark on their digital transformation journeys, what is the expected role of ITSM in enabling businesses to realize the benefits of automation, observability, intelligence, and optimization? ESG recently surveyed IT, DevOps, and application development professionals responsible for application infrastructure to find the answers.

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Abstract:

Organizations continue to try to strike the balance between cloud-native and legacy infrastructure. Whether organizations take a “cloud-first” or a “cloud-when-it-makes-sense” approach to their digital transformation initiatives, the number and variety of infrastructure options and locations continue to expand. Specifically, IT operations teams continue to strive to improve collaboration with developers on building modern application architectures and establishing the related processes. As companies accelerate or embark on their digital transformation journeys, what is the expected role of ITSM in enabling businesses to realize the benefits of automation, observability, intelligence, and optimization?

To gain insight into these trends, ESG surveyed 357 IT, DevOps, and application development professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) responsible for evaluating, purchasing, managing, and building application infrastructure.

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Nearly half of organizations plan to increase spending on data center infrastructure in 2022, and data center modernization efforts continue to be a priority for many. The top modernization steps targeted for investments include software-defined data centers, AIOps, monitoring tools, and on-premises deployments of hyperscale cloud technologies. In addition, a majority of organizations want to apply a cloud-like payment model based on resource utilization in their data centers, further illustrating their desire to balance on-premises and cloud approaches.

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Digital business initiatives are placing unprecedented pressures on both IT organizations and the infrastructure they manage.

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The IT infrastructure landscape has transformed. The data center, once the central cog in the IT machine, is quickly becoming only a piece of a larger and more complex environment. Contemporary IT infrastructure is often distributed across multiple locations both on- and off-premises. This research study is intended to better understand the current state of IT infrastructure, including how the increases in scale and distribution of infrastructure environments are increasing IT complexity and otherwise impacting IT operations.

Abstract:

ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT and data storage professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between June 22, 2021 and June 30, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be professionals responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing data storage technology for their organization.

This Master Survey Results presentation focuses on investigating storage trends for both on- and off-premises technology environments, including challenges, opportunities, and evolving strategies for both.