- Global cloud revenue to total $474b in 2022, up from $408b in 2021
- Over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms by 2025, up from 30% in 2021.
- Cloud revenue will surpass non-cloud revenue for relevant enterprise IT markets in the next couple of years.
- Gartner estimates that 70% of new applications developed by organisations will use low-code or no-code technologies by 2025, up from less than 25% in 2020.
The adoption and interest in the public cloud continue unabated as organisations pursue a “cloud-first” policy for onboarding new workloads and the pandemic has given it a shot in the arm.
Milind Govekar, distinguished vice president at Gartner, said that there is no business strategy without a cloud strategy and the cloud will become the centrepiece of new digital experiences.
Cloud has enabled new digital experiences such as mobile payment systems where banks have invested in startups, energy companies using the cloud to improve their customers’ retail experiences or car companies launching new personalisation services for customers’ safety and infotainment.
That is why hyperscalers are investing a lot in the opening of new data centres globally.
Govekar said that global cloud revenue is estimated to total $474 billion in 2022, up from $408 billion in 2021.
Over the next few years, Gartner estimates that cloud revenue will surpass non-cloud revenue for relevant enterprise IT markets.
Product-orientated operating model
Govekar said that more than 85 per cent of organisations will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and will not be able to fully execute their digital strategies without the use of cloud-native architectures and technologies.
“Adopting cloud-native platforms means that digital or product teams will use architectural principles and capabilities to take advantage of the inherent capabilities within the cloud environment,” he said.
New workloads deployed in a cloud-native environment will be pervasive, he said but not just popular and anything non-cloud will be considered legacy.
By 2025, Gartner estimates that over 95 per cent of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms, up from 30 per cent in 2021.
As the operating model changes, he said the organisation will turn to a product-orientated operating model where the entire value stream of the business and IT will have to be aligned by-products.
“This will create new roles and responsibilities, such as site reliability engineers, product managers or communities of practices while application development will shift to application assembly and integration,” he said.
Use of low-code technologies
Moreover, he said the technological and organisational silos of application development, automation, integration and governance will become obsolete and will drive the rise of low-code application platforms (LCAPs) and citizen development.
By 2025, Gartner estimates that 70 per cent of new applications developed by organisations will use low-code or no-code technologies, up from less than 25 per cent in 2020.
“The rise of low-code application platforms (LCAPs) is driving the increase of citizen development, and notably the function of business technologists who report outside of IT departments and create technology or analytics capabilities for internal or external business use,” Govekar said.
Gartner estimates that in 2022, end-user spending on cloud-delivered secure access service edge (SASE) will total $6.8 billion, up from $4.8 billion in 2021. In addition, by 2025, more than 50 per cent of organisations will have explicit strategies to adopt SASE, up from less than 5 per cent in 2020.
Govekar said that SASE presents the fastest growing opportunity in the networking and network security market.
As most traffic from branches and edge computing locations will not go to an enterprise data centre, he said that CIOs and IT leaders will increasingly use SASE to secure the anywhere and anytime access needs from users and devices.