Over the past few years, there has been a significant shift in corporate perceptions of cloud computing, while the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the implementation of cloud migration plans. Nowadays, for many enterprises, cloud migration has become inevitable. Because cloud platforms are very attractive, they can help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, and improve the flexibility and resilience of their business.
Due to the macro economic environment and changes in business requirements, enterprises have made adjustments to their strategic plans. The following trends will drive cloud migration in 2022 and beyond.
Technological and human factors are more closely integrated
While technology is often the most immediate factor in large-scale transformation efforts, there are also multiple human factors at work, with transparency, global access, and socio-economic factors also driving the acceleration of the global cloud computing market. COVID-19 is a more concrete and urgent combination of human interests and technology, with many companies moving their business to cloud platforms.
Cloud migration facilitates application modernization
Moving to the public cloud was initially seen as a simple way to quickly replace data center infrastructure with virtual machines, without changing the applications themselves. Once in the cloud, however, companies will realize that upgrading and migrating will do little to unlock the true potential of cloud computing for enterprise innovation.
According to Gartner, more than 95 percent of digital workloads will be deployed in the cloud, up from 30 percent in 2021.
More and more cloud users now see that they must update their critical applications to realize all the benefits of cloud computing. This, he says, is the most important driver of cloud migration: the desire to modernize applications as part of the process and achieve more substantial business results.
Digital transformation will accelerate
COVID-19 has prompted companies to accelerate the pace of exploring and implementing digital transformation. Initially, it was about keeping traditional businesses running and using tools to develop innovative products and better deliver digital experiences to customers.
Today, more and more enterprises are looking to integrate multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures, edge computing, containerized and serverless computing into enterprise applications.
Enterprise cloud migration is cloud native?
Containers, microservices, DevOps and service grid are key technologies for cloud native, but enterprise cloud migration still has a long way to go before cloud native.
The emergence of cloud native is accelerating the pace of digital transformation of enterprises. Cloud native can connect infrastructure resources and mobilize computing, storage, and network resources more efficiently. Enterprises no longer need to build their own computer rooms, but only need to make full use of the capabilities provided by the cloud to complete the rapid development and iteration of applications.
In order to liberate the creativity of developers, CloudOS adopts online modular architecture design, developers do not need to master K8s, container and other technologies, can self-help, quickly build cloud native applications, so that developers more focused on the code, to liberate the creativity of programmers.
CloudOS also has many advantages: to avoid duplication of development across business teams, there is an app store where common business components can be used on demand and shared to improve the overall performance of the IT team; Establish a unified DevOps platform for R&D operation cooperation, standardize the requirements, design, development, testing, operation and maintenance environments, provide information visualization, break down barriers of various departments, smooth the flow of R&D assets, improve business efficiency, and improve user experience; One-click multi-cloud delivery/management to meet the security requirements of application deployment.
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