IDC makes 2016 cloud predictions for Asia Pacific

IDC Asia/Pacific announced its top predictions for cloud services and highlights how adoption of cloud is continuously evolving in the region - becoming the core enabler of the digital transformation of Asia Pacific businesses. Furthermore, IDC predicts that by the end of 2018, 40% of IT spend across hardware, software and services will be for cloud oriented technologies, and by 2020, 45%-50% of all spend will be for cloud delivered models.

Hybrid clouds
“In fact, 2016 will be a big year for solutions built on hybrid cloud architectures with 65% of Asia Pacific enterprises to commit for its implementation,” said Chris Morris, Vice President, Cloud and Services, IDC Asia/Pacific.

IDC believes that the big drivers for increased implementation of hybrid clouds are IT’s continuing quest for optimised infrastructure, and the ability of solution builders to source application and infrastructure components from multiple providers to construct a hybrid cloud-based solution.

“With increasing cloud spending, many enterprises will have begun use of hybrid solutions without IT’s direct involvement. With the business unit managers increasingly buying their own cloud solutions, hybrid cloud architectures can proliferate, and sometimes not be aligned with the enterprise architecture,” Morris cautioned.

Workload optimisation

By 2017, 50% of enterprise IT organisations building hybrid clouds will purchase new or updated workload-centric cloud management solutions.

"As the use of cloud services matures and broadens, the emphasis for enterprise IT has moved from technology management to service management and the optimisation of workloads. The impact of digital transformation projects on the service delivery infrastructure necessitates that CIOs re-architect their delivery processes to ensure the IT environment is flexible and agile, yet secure and resilient,” added Mayur Sahni, Senior Research Manager for Cloud and Service, IDC Asia/Pacific.

Industry clouds
By 2019, industry cloud creation will be viewed as the top market entry strategy for both technology providers and industrial companies alike, as IT leaders’ industry domain experts join to tear down traditional barriers to entry.

Public data and analytics
By 2018, cloud becomes a preferred delivery mechanism for public data, information, and analytics, increasing public information consumption by 150% and paving the way for thousands of new industry applications.

Diversified models
By 2020, 60% of companies' IT assets are off-site in colocation, hosting, and cloud datacenters while ¼ of IT staff are actually employees of third-party service providers. By 2017, there will be a 15% shift of IT budget away from traditional in-house IT delivery as organisations use more third party service providers to fill cloud-related skills gaps.

Open becomes mandatory
By 2017, over 60% of enterprises will embrace open source and open application programming interfaces (APIs) as the underpinning for cloud integration strategies.

DevOps delivery
By 2018, over 60% of new apps will use cloud-enabled continuous delivery and cloud-native application architectures to enable faster innovation and business agility.

East meets West
2018, 25% of global enterprises will have service providers from Asia Pacific as part of their cloud ecosystem.

Interested?

IDC Asia/Pacific is hosting a free webcast, Hybrid Cloud: Mastering the Raw Material of Digital Transformation on January 20, 2016. Register