Latin America. Westcon-Comstor's business unit and one of the leading Cisco technology wholesalers, says demand for Adaptive Hybrid IT is growing.
According to the consulting firm Gartner, it is expected by 2020 that the turnover of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Ultra Platform as a Service (PaaS) will exceed US $ 55 billion, and probably also, the billing of traditional servers.
That perspective reinforces the global movement of migration from the physical to the digital, that is, right now we are living in an extremely hybrid IT world. The movement is motivated especially by the arrival of Cloud Computing and now by the maturity of the IT sector, which managed to absorb new technologies and transform them into results for companies.
Hybrid IT already reaches servers, infrastructure, applications and devices, being part of the day to day of companies that seek efficiency in their networks with a cost more adjusted to their realities. The challenge at the moment is the optimization of processes so that the maximum benefits of each element that make up this new infrastructure are obtained.
Gartner states that by 2020 a corporate policy without the Cloud will be as rare as today a company that works without access to the Internet. Especially since the implementation of any custom software for a company is projected for some variation of Public or Private Cloud.
That doesn't mean everything will be cloud-based. What Gartner means is that hybrid is becoming the most common usage model right now, as companies continue to use their on-premises Data Centers, but at the same time are migrating to Cloud Computing the components that have the potential to act in a more flexible and adaptable IT infrastructure.
We are at a time when new technology is being tested, digested and beginning to reach and present the first results. Therefore, more conservative companies prefer to use traditional IT standards, implementing new changes to the few.
The consultancy also warns that by 2019, more than 30% of new investments in software (among the 100 largest IT providers) will be in the "first in the Cloud" policy instead of "only in the Cloud", showing that companies are listening to the desires of the market by offering a preliminary stage of testing, before fully converting your infrastructures. Gartner believes that also applies to Private and Hybrid Cloud scenarios, as companies do a test before hiring Private Cloud.
However, to force a more accelerated migration, the provider companies offer state-of-the-art technology only in virtual environments, further increasing the demand for integration infrastructure. That tactic is working, according to other numbers from the Gartner study, which assess that by 2020, computing components will be more sold by IaaS and PaaS Cloud providers than by sold and implemented in corporate data centers.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has grown more than 40% in its turnover per year since 2011, and is expected to continue to rise to a rate of more than 25% per year until 2019. In addition, by 2019, most virtual machines (VMs) will be delivered by IaaS providers. Most companies understand that they will continue to have a capacity in the local data center, but with more computing power if they migrate to IaaS providers.
In short, IT infrastructures are evolving from the traditional system, with a set of connected services on premises, for hybrid strategies, with connected services in the Cloud, generating a new demand for IT professionals, who in addition to understanding the entire process, must optimize actions and achieve tangible results for the companies that adopt it.
