Cloud challenges
Top Trends the Channel Needs to Watch in 2017
The channel’s biggest opportunities in 2017 will be some of their customers’ biggest challenges, such as digital transformation, the cloud and security.
Digital Transformation
37% of the companies surveyed are planning digital transformation projects in the next 12 months to develop a new business model or introduce new products or services, and 33% are already developing their strategy.
Top IT Funding Priorities in 2017
• Cloud infrastructure: 70%
• Security and compliance: 50%
• IT management, automation and orchestration: 48%
• Big data analytics: 42%
Deployment Plans
38% of the respondents are choosing self-managed private clouds, while 30% are opting for a hybrid cloud strategy.16% are still developing their cloud infrastructure strategy.
Multi-Cloud Strategies
30% of respondents reported that their organization employs a multi-cloud strategy for their apps, and 29% plan to use one.
Biggest Challenges
• Cloud strategy: 52%
• Building new applications more quickly: 42%
• Optimizing and modernizing existing IT: 39%
• Security: 38%
Top Tech Goals
• Reduce costs for traditional infrastructure and apps: 63%
• Accelerate service delivery: 60%
• Improve performance: 53%
• Add more self-service capabilities: 49%
• Strengthen security: 43%
Legacy Downgrade
Respondents expect to reduce their investment in optimizing traditional legacy systems from 79% now to only 21% in two years.
Future IT Investments
• Developing and deploying modern applications: 52%
• Implementing software-defined storage: 50%
• Delivering cloud infrastructure and services: 42%