The latest IDC report , Asia/Pacific State of Cloud: Adoption Trends, Challenges, and Preferences, unveils that nearly 90% of Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) enterprises have substantial workload deployments on multiple public clouds. Moreover, 85% of these enterprises have at least one workload in a true hybrid cloud setup, and over half (52%) have implemented an edge-to-cloud use case.
“As AI becomes the leading driver of competitive advantage, hybrid cloud architectures are crucial to enterprises balancing digital sovereignty requirements driving the demand for private AI, as well as the proven business value and technological innovation that public clouds offer. Seamless orchestration and management of multiple public cloud and hybrid IT environments, particularly for use cases focused on data, AI, and digital sovereignty, will drive enterprise cloud adoption for the foreseeable future,” says Pushkar Shanbhag, Associate Research Director of Digital Infrastructure and IT Servies, IDC Asia/Pacific.
Vendor
The report finds that enterprises in Asia/Pacific consider a wide variety of vendor types, including hyperscalers, infrastructure OEMs, specialised cloud professionals and managed SPs, business consultants, ISVs/SaaS vendors, colocation providers, telcos, and global systems integrators (GSIs).
“As part of their digital infrastructure and cloud services sourcing strategy, it is crucial for enterprises to carefully assess the breadth and depth of vendors’ ecosystem capabilities. Partnerships, technical delivery, joint R&D initiatives, codeveloped/cobranded solutions, etc., in addition to a vendors’ unique IP and assets, will ensure the orchestration of value across an increasingly complex ecosystem,” said Shanbhag.
Challenges
However, the study also uncovers a significant challenge as enterprises are struggling to realise the expected value from their cloud adoption fully. This leads to cost overruns, suboptimal performance, operational economics, schedule slippages, and management issues with multiple vendors.
