Accelerating Growth in SaaS and Cloud Deployments for Balancing Flexibility

Many enterprises had speed up their digital transformation efforts during the last one year. As there is limited in-person interactions, applications-and the digital experiences they facilitate-have become synonymous with an organization’s presence and ability to thrive. Improving connectivity, reducing latency, ensuring security, and leveraging data insights are now even more essential, as IT teams have found it nearly impossible to keep pace with the rate of change and digitization of experiences. At the same time, many organizations lacking the skill sets to truly streamline deployments.

In today’s digital-first world, every organization is in the digital experience business. Consumers are increasingly reliant on digital connections in every aspect of their lives and this reliance has propelled applications to be even more central to a business’s strategy – further emphasizing the pivotal role that apps continue to play in our economy. As businesses continue to invest in their application portfolios, it is critical to ensure that their apps are able to adapt, scale and self-heal across different app environments.

We can’t deny the fact that, the organizations are evolving application strategies to better serve the current and anticipated needs of customers.

IT decision-makers to best highlight the priorities, concerns, and expectations of those most responsible for meeting the toughest challenges of today’s digital economy. Many organisations are on the speed track for getting Modernization of Apps and Architectures to Enable Better Digital Experiences. There are 87% of organizations operate both modern and traditional architectures, with modernization deemed necessary when legacy systems are too rigid to adapt to rapidly changing business conditions. In addition, the percentage of organizations maintaining multiple app architectures is growing, with the survey also affirming that as-a-service and managed service offerings continue to be viewed as replacements for some applications where vendors can provide cloud-friendly alternatives. With this there is increased adoption of Edge deployments as containerization expands.

With the percentage of applications deployed in the cloud rising‚ more than two-thirds of respondents (68%) are also hosting at least some of their application security and delivery technologies in the cloud. Simultaneously, organizations are positioning themselves to address the architectural complexity that results from adding SaaS and edge solutions, maintaining on-premises and multi-cloud environments, and modernizing applications. However, security continues to be a key driver, with efforts to stay ahead of attackers frequently requiring capabilities beyond what organizations have the resources to manage on premises. Further highlighting this challenge, SaaS for security was identified as the top strategic trend among survey respondents.

S Mohini Ratna, Editor, VARINDIA