Interconnected Cloud Strategy for Digital Enterprise Resiliency - AN IDC INFOBRIEF | JUNE 2021
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Sponsored by
Interconnected
Cloud Strategy
for Digital
Enterprise
Resiliency
IDC Doc # EUR147918321
AN IDC INFOBRIEF | JUNE 2021
Toward Enterprise Resiliency
As businesses become software enabled, business success depends on the resiliency, security and flexibility of the infrastructure supporting the software.
CIOs must enable this trusted environment with agility and resilience. IDC has mapped out six basic interlocking capabilities that an enterprise needs to build
its digital resiliency.
Resilient
Infrastructure
Hybrid and multicloud
enable resilience
Resilient
Opportunism by improving Relationships
infrastructure scalability
Crisis creates opportunity to Conversational platform on
accelerate difficult organizational cloud combines the use of chatbots
and technology changes which, in with optimized human customer
better times, would cause too much services to scale the reach through
organizational resistance. digital channels.
Enterprise Resilient
Resilient
Workforce Resiliency Operations
Digital resiliency investment is
Tele- or digital capabilities enabled Connecting devices, business, data
through cloud-based collaboration, and applications through convergence a priority for organizations in
automations and communications of IT and operational technology (OT) on EMEA. In March 2021, spending
empower the digital workforce. cloud to enable alignment of operations
Resilient to customer needs.
on digital resiliency was 6%
Decision Making higher than in the US from an
Self-service analytics platforms investment index perspective.
offload increasing business analyst
workloads back to users by self-service Source: IDC EMEA Digital Resiliency Investment Index, March 2021
business intelligence (BI) applications
on cloud.
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Challenges of Enterprise Resiliency
Increasing interdependencies of applications and data
ALLEN
H
#1
G
The shift among developers to modular application design, microservices and containers leads to a quickly expanding, disaggregated IT
C
E
application portfolio where interdependencies between applications and data rise dramatically for enterprises.
Average rate of Typical number of
Workload types dependencies dependencies
Business applications 74% 30
100%
High: Complex set of
Email/Collaborative and content 75% 10
interdependencies with
23%
80%
49%
other applications; multiple
stakeholders involved
Data, analytics and technical 67% 11
Medium: Some
60%
45%
dependencies on other
applications but its fairly Infrastructure and Web 66% 9
simple to manage
20
40%
Low: No real
40% dependencies on
Application development and test 65%
20% other applications
32% This has implications for the quality of CRM, SCM, BI/analytics and application
0%
11% application design, with containers and API development tools are some of the most
functions becoming critically important for dependent on others, but many more will
2020 2022 connectivity between applications. be affected.
Source: IDC 2Q20 EMEA Cloud Pulse Survey, 2020 (n=425)
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Challenges of Enterprise Resiliency
Enabling a containerized hybrid and multi-cloud environment
ALLEN With containers expected to reach nearly 50 million hosts (physical and virtual) installed and 3 billion container instances concurrently
H
installed by the end of 2021, containers are expected to become ubiquitous in the datacenter. Interconnected cloud architectures
#2
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C
E
are important because cloud-native applications and hybrid/multi-cloud infrastructure resources can no longer be adequately managed
using traditional configuration, migration, troubleshooting, monitoring and change control strategies.
Multiple Databases Multiple Applications
50%
of enterprise
applications
Containerized
will be containerized
Interconnections
By 2023, over 40% of enterprises
will replace outdated operational
models with cloud-centric
models that facilitate rather
than inhibit organizational
collaboration, resulting in better
Dedicated Hosting On-Premises Datacenter Multiple Public Clouds business outcomes.
Hybrid Multi-Cloud Environment Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2021 Predictions – EMEA Implications
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The Need for Interconnected Cloud Strategy
Interconnectivity Interoperability Integration
• Ensure secured connectivity • Move applications and data • Understand the business
across distributed digital from poorly designed cloud processes and impact on
infrastructure with architecture to new and workflows to take advantage
ecosystem of clouds, better run of the native features and
customers, partners and environments. functionalities in cloud solutions.
service providers.
• Support applications and • Have a cloud architect to
• Enable direct connectivity to data using containers and help plan and design the IT
cloud providers for critical cloud-native technologies infrastructure, networks and
applications and workloads across more than one cloud migration to minimize
for reliability cloud, public or private, for system integration risk across
and performance. agility and future application different cloud types.
design.
• Use software-defined • Secured access to data sources
interconnection for • Look for a vendor or across the distributed industry
on-demand network provider that partners and ecosystem of cloud solutions for
connections between connects with a diverse set analytic or AL/ML workloads.
datacenters and the edge of products and Through 2023, all enterprises will struggle with app
nodes. service providers in the • Look for a vendor or provider
growing cloud ecosystem. with strength to deliver integrated
modernization and data integration across cloud
• Look for a vendor or workload management and silos; 20% will adopt connected cloud architectures
provider with global governance across distributed
interconnectivity to support and heterogeneous cloud-centric to overcome these concerns.
global digital business. digital infrastructures.
Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2021 Predictions – EMEA Implications
IDC Doc # EUR147918321 5Message from the sponsor
Equinix & Microsoft for Enterprise Resiliency
A hybrid cloud infrastructure enables Network Optimization Availability
enterprise resiliency by delivering public With Equinix and Microsoft, you can optimize application performance Azure ExpressRoute is available in Equinix data
cloud interconnection at scale. Equinix operating in Azure and enhance user experiences to improve centers in 32 metros globally including 11 countries
provides a solid foundation for cloud workplace productivity. in the EMEA region.
migration through network optimization
from legacy resources, with secure, • Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute - Provides private, dedicated,
dedicated SDN connectivity in low latency high-throughput network connection to Microsoft Azure.
proximity to Azure through Equinix Fabric.
• Equinix Fabric - An advanced interconnection solution that offers
• Application Modernization software-defined direct connections to multiple cloud services from
Maintain legacy on-premise applications a single physical port.
that are interconnected to Azure while
transforming to cloud-based services to When combined with Azure ExpressRoute, Equinix Fabric enables
lower costs, improve productivity and seamless, on-demand, direct access to Microsoft Azure.
enable better scalability.
• Hybrid Multicloud
Enterprise customers can leverage the
multi-cloud capabilities of Equinix Fabric
to connect to multiple clouds at high-
performing rates of bandwidth and in a
more cost-effective and secure manner.
Enterprise customers will benefit from
the cloud-adjacency Equinix provides to
Azure for critical hybrid workloads and
applications that require low latency and
flexibility.
“Microsoft ExpressRoute is the only option for
real, production-grade connectivity.”
Please contact Equinix at www.equinix.co.uk/contact-us/sales with any questions.About IDC
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