FEATURE
growing impact that Digital Transformation
is having on UK businesses.
Despite only 16% of organisations having
a Digital Transformation strategy in place
at present, the research identifies that this
figure is expected to rise to 72% in only
two years’ time. A total of 80% of those
surveyed with either an existing Digital
Transformation strategy or a strategy in
the pipeline, describe the cloud as being
important to this strategy.
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A cloud solution means moving data and
processing from on-premise servers to a
cloud-based infrastructure and is often the
first logical step on a business’ path to full
Digital Transformation.
Before a business starts to worry about
AI, the Internet of Things and Big Data, it
should first embrace cloud solutions as a
gateway into bigger and more ambitious
transformations further down the line.
Service providers already account for
44% of worldwide spending on core
infrastructure technologies according to
IDC and public cloud spending is always
increasing. Indeed, service provider
public cloud spending is set to increase
at an annual rate of 19.4% throughout
2019, hitting a total global spend of
US$141 billion at the end of the year. A
total of 40% of this spend will be from
SMBs, so it’s not just the big boys that
understand the potential power of the
cloud either.
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