Are we getting ahead of our abilities in the headlong rush to cloud? Moving to cloud doesn't mean the headaches of technology management are also being handed over to a third-party provider -- if anything, the rapid push to cloud may be getting ahead of organizations' ability to keep up.
Thanks to Covid crisis, the year 2020 was a boom year for cloud adoption, and it turns out things got pushed even deeper into the cloud during 2021. There's no end in sight to the cloud boom, and with it, new challenges to technology teams.
That's the gist of a recent survey[1] of 300 IT executives by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, underwritten by Splunk, which finds while at this moment, most organizations still have most of their technology systems in house. But get ready to start bidding farewell to on-premises IT. Things are going to shift dramatically, and within the next two years, most enterprises will be mainly running off the cloud.
Over the past year, 67% say their organizations accelerated the adoption or implementation of already planned cloud applications, services, or infrastructure -- an increase from the 56% who said their organization had done this as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in the prior year's survey.
Cloud will just keep accelerating, the survey shows. The majority (65%) predict that more than 60% of their IT portfolio will reside in the cloud within two years. This represents a 30-percentage point jump from today. A total of 85% say at least 40% will be in the cloud by 2023, a similar 32 percentage points higher than those reporting that much is in the cloud today.
"However, the rapid acceleration and expansion of cloud has brought its own