IDC: Deploying Custom Applications in the Cloud
Transcript of IDC: Deploying Custom Applications in the Cloud
Public Clouds Are Becominga Preferred Destination for
Custom Application Developmentand Deployment
Custom Apps Are Primed for the Cloudwith Extensive Support for Dev/Test
Momentum Is Growing for a Multicloudand Hybrid Cloud Strategy
KEY CONSIDERATIONSFOR DEPLOYING
CUSTOM APPLICATIONSIN THE CLOUD
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Benefits
Challenges
Cloud Migration of Custom ApplicationsDrives Application Modernization
Where Applications Reside
Percent of U.S. Organizations by Number of Custom Applications in Development and Testing Environments
Source: PaaSView and the Developer, IDC, 2021
*The migration of applications from an on-premises environment to a cloud, with minor changes that leverage some of the cloud platform’s functionality such as autoscaling and high availability
Custom applications often represent heavy support burdensfor IT sta�. Issues may be compounded by lack of personnel skilled in an application’s specific architecture and infrastructure and by capacity constraints in on-premises datacenters.
Integration into legacy app environments remains the toptechnology bottleneck in the application delivery pipeline. Moving applications to the cloud and application modernization can resolve many challenges.
Top Technology Bottlenecks
Integration into legacy app environments
Monitoring and performance management
Database development and management
Environment standardization
Security, compliance, and governance
Quality of data and insights
77%
53%
51%
46%
44%
39%
Source: DevOps and Accelerated Application Delivery Survey, IDC, January 2021
Multiple environments and tool stacks can inhibit DevOps scalability.
Modernizing while dealing with legacy applications is a formidable challenge.
Clouds also scale by expanding or contracting bandwidth as workloads require.
Plus the ability to meet changing market needs with favorable economics, improved risk mitigation of disaster recovery, built-in compliance, more robust and easier security, and DevOps cloud services.
Public clouds o�er cost-e�ective services to meet custom applications’ needs for data, storage, disaster recovery, artificial intelligence, and edge computing.
Comprehensive andhigh-performanceservices
Robust integrationcapabilities
Flexible compute
A zero-trustarchitecture approach
Pre-built referencearchitectures
Access to cloud-native technologies to support continuous modernization
Custom applications are prevalent in all sizes of organizations.
50% 50%+68%
of U.S. organizations have 25 or more
custom applications in development and test
today
of U.S. organizations have over 100
custom applications in development and
testing today
For over half of these U.S. organizations, these custom apps remain on premises
Source: PaaSView and the Developer, IDC, 2020
O� premises, with a service provider or cloud provider
54%46%On premises, in our own
datacenters or o�ces
U.S. 2020
Cloud-based application development at U.S. organizationsis addressing these critical areas:
20%23%58%
Re-platforming applications* onto the cloud
Refactoring applications**
Development of net-new applications
Organizations are widely using modern development methods.
APIs
Microservices
Containers
Functions
Container orchestrationframeworks
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Use regularly Pilot In Process Will Consider Not in use
Source: PaaSView and the Developer, IDC, 2020
Modern services such as APIs, microservices, containers, functions, and container orchestration frameworks are common elements of application architectures on the cloud.
These services are rendered more e�ectively in public cloud than they are on premises today.
More than 25% of U.S. organizations regularly use multiple modern services.
Only 10% are not using or are only in the consideration phasefor modern application services.
Relative to the total number of custom apps,a larger portion are being built and deployed as cloud native.
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Source: DevOps and Accelerated Application Delivery Survey, IDC, January 2021
Requirements include:
Organizations are taking a selective approach to choosing a vendor for migrating custom applications and their workloads to the cloud.
DevOps teams are leaning into cloud-native developmentand expect continued momentum looking out to 2022 – although progress is likely impeded by the friction of maintaining existing legacy applications. Moving existing applications to the cloudcan overcome that friction.
Most customers use multiple clouds today
Partner ecosystem, available back-end services, costs, performance, service-level agreements, and optimizationfor specific workloads could also justify a movement from one cloud platform to another.
47% of worldwide customers using clouds for production-grade applications use between 3 and 4 vendors (43% for U.S.).
An important consideration with most enterprise custom applications is working with a cloud vendor that accommodates split architectures (i.e., across application and database services) and uses fast interconnects across those services.
**The re-architecting of applications to optimize their functionality for the cloud (e.g., transforming monolithic applications to microservices architectures using containers)
Cloud-Native Development Rates Rising
Source: PaaSView and the Developer, IDC, 2020
Note: Respondents could chose all that applied.
Solution Requirements
27%100–499 applications
23%> 500 applications
1–24 applications
32%
25–99 applications
18%
There is still a large opportunity to move custom apps to the cloud.
2020 2022
Perc
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of R
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Percent of total estate built/deployed using cloud-native development
13%
29%
46%
9%14%
59%
19%3% 4% 5%
0–4% 5–24% 25–49% 50–74% 75–100%
By 2022, nearly 80% of organizations will be deployingat least one-quarter of their applications as cloud native,
compared to only 59% in 2020.