Where do the data live? |

There will be changes in the IT infrastructure over the next two years. Applications migrate from their own data center to the cloud. Where exactly depends on the specific application. Four groups can be recognized. […]

What IT infrastructure will be used in the future for which data and applications? What are the benefits and what changes should policymakers make now? Research in Action researchers investigated this issue on behalf of Interxion. Research in Action surveyed 1,730 people from eight European countries, including 120 Austrian

. Their answers give a clear picture: of the current on-site approach (53.5% of Austrian respondents store their data on site) Solutions – whether in their own data center or in a private cloud), the data will be largely moved to the public cloud by 2020. At present, almost half of Austrian IT decision-makers (48.2%) want to outsource their data to the public cloud. The share on the scene will fall to 30% by 2020 – just under half of the status quo. Over the next two years, the share of roommates should increase from 10.5 to 16.8%. Not all data migrates to the same infrastructure. Four groups can be distinguished.

Nearby Applications

The first group includes applications that stay close: For ERP, CRM, Supply Chain Management and Storage, there is a move to the cloud, 2018 still represents three quarters of the load of data from its own data center, but in 2020, it should have been much more distributed to colocation and public cloud solutions. By 2020, only a third of these applications should remain in the public cloud. Security and Direct Access are Important

Localists

The second group may be called localists: HR, marketing automation and backup are already heavily represented in the public cloud. In HR, 37.5% of respondents already use the public cloud, 66.6% for marketing automation and 27.5% for backup. The reason: It is about flexible access and secure performance. In the field of marketing automation, the data must also be easily accessible to external partners and service providers. These numbers will continue to grow over the next few years.

Mixed cloud database applications

will be the most prevalent, according to the study: everything from the private cloud in their own data center to the hyperscaler. In this group of applications, it depends on the industry and specific data manipulated which infrastructure offers the most benefits.

Hyperscaler focus

The last segment shows a break with the traditional infrastructure as data-hungry applications leave data centers and switch to the public cloud, mainly for hyperscales, where high scalability and efficiency is crucial in areas such as security, development / testing, collaboration and project management.

The study shows that the multi-cloud world is already there is a lot of reality. By 2020, multi-cloud concepts will be the norm. Already, 70% of the decision makers surveyed indicate that they use up to five service providers for infrastructure as a service and platform as a service.

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