NEWS
Nordic enterprises
seek Digital
Transformation
from data centre
and cloud vendors
nterprises in the Nordic
countries are investing in Digital
Transformation and looking for
vendors to help them with their move
to the cloud and adoption of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) for operations, according
to a new report published by Information
Services Group (ISG), a leading global
technology research and advisory firm.
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The 2019 ISG Provider Lens Private/
Hybrid Cloud – Data Center Services and
Solutions Report for the Nordics finds
many Nordic enterprises turning to IT
outsourcing as a way to cut costs, expand
their businesses globally and gain access
to technology experts with niche skills.
“As Nordic enterprises transform their
businesses to raise their profiles in the global
market, Digital Transformation and cloud
and data centre outsourcing have become
their key priorities,” said Barry Matthews,
Partner and Head of ISG Northern Europe,
which includes the Nordics.
In some cases, however, Nordic businesses
are struggling to see quick returns on
investment when they move to a cloud
computing model, the report reveals. While
cloud computing can eliminate or minimise
hardware infrastructure, some enterprises
need outside expertise to help them plan
and capitalise their cloud investments.
Many Nordic enterprises are turning
to providers to help them roll out AI
for IT operations (AIOps) to automate
commoditised IT infrastructure and
software maintenance and to reduce
labour-intensive intervention for
mundane tasks.
DataStax announces results
of survey on IT architecture
modernisation trends
ataStax, a company behind
a leading database built
on Apache Cassandra,
has announced results from an IT
Architecture Modernization Trends
survey, showing that 99% of IT execs
report challenges with architecture
modernisation and 98% report
challenges with their corporate data
architectures (data silos).
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Vendor lock-in (95%) was
of particular concern among
respondents. The survey, conducted
in conjunction with Dimensional
Research and DataStax, investigates
current experiences and plans to
reduce complexity and cost around
architecture modernisation.
Respondents included more than 300
executives who work for companies
of more than 5,000 employees.
The resulting report provided a
number of key insights, including:
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Architecture modernisation is
both necessary and hard: 100% of
respondents are modernising their
technology architecture with the
goals of reducing costs, improving
customer and employee satisfaction,
and gaining data-driven insights.
However, 99% report challenges
with architecture modernisation and
no standards exist for funding new
application development.
Cloud flexibility is key: A total of 85%
of respondents have cloud initiatives
as part of modernisation efforts, 72%
are moving to a hybrid or multi-cloud
infrastructure, more than half of all new
application architectures will support
hybrid or multi-cloud environments and
95% have concerns about vendor lock-in.
To learn more about the IT Architecture
Modernization Trends 2019, visit
datastax.com/resources/reports/new-
research-report-2019-it-architecture-
modernization-trends. ◊
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