Nov 2016 - IDC FutureScape - Doc # US41863916
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2017 Predictions
By:
Robert P. Mahowald, Mary Johnston Turner, Eric Newmark
Program Vice President, Cloud, SaaS and Industry Cloud, Larry Carvalho
Research Director, Platform as a Service, Douglas Hayward
Research Director, Worldwide Digital Strategy and Agency Services, Deepak Mohan
Research Director, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group, Chris Morris
Vice President, IDC Asia/Pacific, Nakul Narayan, Adelaide O'Brien
Research Director, Government Digital Transformation Strategies, Satoshi Matsumoto
Research Director, IT Services, IDC Japan, Henry D. Morris, Carla Arend
Senior Program Director, European Software, Erik Berggren, Frank Gens
Senior Vice President & Chief Analyst, Benjamin McGrath, Mickey North Rizza
Program Vice President, Enterprise Applications and Digital Commerce, Michael Versace, Waseq Ahsan, Alejandro Florean
Vice President Consulting & Strategic Solutions, Latin America, William Lee
Research Director, Tony Olvet
Group Vice President, Research, Jeronimo Piña
Program Manager, Software and Cloud Solutions, Latin America
Abstract
This IDC study crystallizes IDC's thinking around a set of key drivers and predictions relating to cloud computing that IDC believes have the potential to dramatically alter the business ecosystem for the next 12–36 months. It provides a basis for understanding some of the changes that will shape business and IT strategy in the coming years.
According to Robert Mahowald, group vice president for IDC's Applications and Cloud research practice, "The dawn of the digital transformation (DX) economy is fueling transformation to virtualized, on-demand provider-based services and driving very rapid internal IT change. IT buyers are shifting steadily toward cloud-first strategies, and nearly all are reconsidering their IT best practices to embrace hybrid and multicloud construction and operations, secure data management, end-to-end governance, updated IT skills, and improved multivendor sourcing. The dynamics we've discussed in this IDC FutureScape, and our recommendations, should be a foundation for how enterprise-class IT organizations think about managing their transformation."
Coverage
Subscriptions Covered
CIO and Technology Professionals Agenda , Canadian Software as a Service , Cloud Management Software , Cloud Services: Global Overview , Core and Edge Computing Platforms , Digital Strategy Consulting and Agency Services , Enterprise Private Cloud , Enterprise SaaS Professional Services , European Cloud Strategies , IDC Government Insights: United States Government Digital Transformation Strategies , Industry Clouds, Solutions and Technology Verticalization Strategies , SaaS and Cloud Software
Regions Covered
Topics Covered
Analytic applications, Application development software, Governance, risk and compliance infrastructure, Hybrid clouds, IT operations and implementation, Infrastructure as a service, Integration and process automation middleware, Platform as a service, Public cloud services, Software as a service, Technology buyer