Digital Transformations for the Midmarket Through Modern Infrastructure Platforms
Many businesses are pursuing digital transformation (DX) — the adoption of technology-driven, data-centric business models — to outperform the competition. The result? Faster release of new products and services, new business models, and improved customer experiences. Cloud-based infrastructure is the key enabler of such digital transformations.
In a recent survey of 900 IT executives and practitioners, sponsored by Dell Technologies, Intel, and VMware, IDC found that about 87% of the respondents from midmarket organizations (henceforth referred to as "respondents" unless otherwise mentioned) considered infrastructure modernization to be a "very important" or an "extremely important" determinant of DX success. About 95% of them have an executive mandate to move to cloud-based environments, with more than 87% of them having plans to install on-premises private cloud infrastructure in the next 12 months.
In this survey, respondents identified IT infrastructure applications, collaborative applications, and business applications as critical to their business success, requiring four-nines or greater availability. They also rated security, performance, and ease of management as primary drivers for placing workloads between traditional IT, private, or public cloud environments.
