Rapid drop in number of enterprises describing their IT infrastructure as on premise in next five years Researcher Saugatuck is predicting “significant evolution” away from traditional IT infrastructures - what is known as on-premise, either with virtualised environment or with a more limited virtualisation. From its survey with over 300 enterprises, it says that the next five years will see the numbers describing their IT infrastructure as on-premise (with or without virtualisation) will fall from 72% in 2015 to just 18% in 2019.
Even the move to cloud is not straightforward: while Private Cloud – either internal Private Cloud or Hosted Private Cloud – grows rapidly from 2015 to 2015 (17% to 38%), it appears to plateau, reaching only 40%by 2019. Interestingly, Internal Private Clouds dominate initially (through 2017), but by 2019, Hosted Private Clouds are nearly neck and neck with Internal Private Cloud deployment activity.
Saugatuck suggests that providers who are currently positioned to provide hardware solutions and / or professional services to enable Hybrid IT environments are “in the right place at the right time”. The projected evolution of IT infrastructures is relatively constant for the entire planning horizon. This suggests two possibilities:
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Enterprises that begin their IT infrastructure transition now will likely stay with their initial vendor selection, given the onset of inertia, and because truly industry-wide interoperability standards are not likely to be fully developed / embraced through the balance of the decade.
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Enterprises that begin their infrastructure transition later will make their vendor selection later – with more choices available to buyers at that time. “If you are behind the times as a provider, you can catch up – but a more limited market opportunity will likely present itself.”
This will be a major discussion point at the European Software and Solutions Summit on March 25 in London Agenda here