Intelligent Data Centres Issue 07 | Page 37

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. www.intelligentdatacentres.com 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. Issue 07 37