According to the latest research by Cloud Industry Forum, organizations are spending a huge amount of revenue on cloud infrastructure than on the on-premise infrastructure. The revenue gap between the on-premise data center and cloud-based data center would become wider in the next three years. Organizations are slowly laying off their legacy IT and increasing their investment in gen-next technology. The research also found that currently, UK organizations devote 19 percent of the budget to cloud infrastructure compared to 18 percent spent on-premise infrastructure.
The organizations in the UK are embracing the cloud but there are barriers standing in the way of adoption.
Here are some figures that can help you understand the cloud scenario in the UK:
1. Organizations are adopting a multi-cloud strategy, with 75 percent of current cloud users deploying two or more cloud-based By 2019, 84 percent of the cloud users will look to increase their cloud usage to pursuit a digital transformation.
2. The organizations are well aware of the cloud technology and threats presented with it, 55% think that the sector will be disrupted with cloud technology in the next two years.
3. Overall 68 percent of the organizations have implemented or in process of implementing a cloud
4. Skill shortage is a key factor coming as a barrier for digital transformation with 50 percent of the current workforce lacking cloud management skills.
Many barriers in the adoption of the cloud or applications of cloud AI, IoT and Blockchain are kind of same that we saw with the cloud earlier. The vendor community and the channel have a big role to play in the journey of digital potential service.