For the past few years, digital transformation (DX) has been the focus of many organizations because investing in DX technologies will enable businesses to use new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) to accelerate growth. IDC believes that 65% of organizations will modernize legacy systems with extensive new technology platform investments through 2023. Modernization of IT environments is a key part of the digital transformation movement and organizations are focused on these goals, but what are the pain points for IT and business leaders? In 2019, IDC asked IT decision makers (ITDMs) about the top datacenter priorities to meet transformation goals.
Ensuring data security and compliance, improving network performance, and improving overall efficiencies are important priorities. But when examining other responses, IDC found commonality in the following top concerns:
- Improve flexibility to move workloads
- Improve capacity planning
- Enable our internal IT team to act more cloudlike
