Cloud makes sense of AI?

Fifty-three percent of technology companies say they need a cloud strategy for emerging technologies like AI and 55% need it to reduce IT costs/optimize spending. Over half (54%) are integrating AI with the cloud in order to improve operational efficiency, according to a Rackspace Technology sponsored survey of 1,420 IT decision-makers across industries conducted in November of 2024.

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A majority (74%) of tech companies have considered repatriating or have repatriated workloads from the public cloud back to private or on-premise clouds to improve data security/compliance (63%), cost savings/budget constraints (53%), infrastructure/customization control (39%) and better integration (39%). Most of those that have moved digital workloads report success with performance/data sovereignty (92%), integration (90%), cost savings/budget constraint (87%), data security/compliance (84%) and unexpected cloud service downtime/reliability (73%).

Challenges to Aligning AI Strategy with Revenue Goals

The leading challenges to aligning AI strategy with revenue goals in the tech sector are lack of cross-functional collaboration (43%), resistance to change in revenue-generating units (36%), inadequate data or technology infrastructure (34%) and insufficient resources or budget (31%).

What Technologies Will Be Most Important to Tech Companies Near-Term?

When asked what tools, platforms or methodologies are most critical to IT operations in the next year or two, data security/compliance platforms topped the list (55%), followed by:

DBaaS (database as a service for scalable data management) (48%)

Hybrid cloud for multi-environment deployment (39%)

PaaS for app development and deployment (39%)

AI/ML platforms for intelligent app development (36%)

Edge computing for distributed apps (26%)

Integration platforms for data transformation (23%).

It is worth noting that data security/privacy/compliance scored high among tech companies throughout the survey in terms of:

a key driver for adopting edge computing (62%)

great current importance (53%)

difficulty keeping up with cloud technologies (46%)

a significant resource gap in managing cloud (45%)

anticipated challenge in aligning with cloud strategy (45%) 

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