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RESEARCH, ANALYSIS & TRENDS

Benefits of cloud infrastructure vital

for competitiveness

The proportion of businesses in Asia Pacific reaping index also highlighted that moving to IaaS has signifi-
the rewards of embracing cloud infrastructure services cantly cut time to deployment of new applications and
has increased significantly in the last quarter, according services and slashed maintenance costs for over two-
to a global survey of 1,610 IT professionals, conducted thirds of respondents (70%).
by Oracle. Oracle CloudInfrastructure, which is man-
aged, hosted, and supported by Oracle, provides or- In addition, 22% of respondents say IaaS is helping
ganizations with tools they need to migrate, build, and them disrupt their market and competitors. The findings
run production, business-critical applications in the of the survey echo the benefits that Oracle's Cloud In-
cloud. Oracle's fast infrastructure services offer com- frastructure customers are already seeing as a result of
prehensive control and the versatility to run both tradi- the high availability, high performance and cost-
tional and cloud-native workloads, with predictable sav- effective cloud-based infrastructure it delivers.
ings.
Chris Chelliah, APAC Group Vice President & Chief
Nearly three-quarters of respondents (74%) believe Architect, Technology & Cloud, said: "The responses
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) makes it easier for clearly show that companies are getting increasing lev-
businesses to innovate, a 9% increase over last quar- els of benefit from using cloud infrastructure and it is
ter. The research also found that 65% of businesses being felt beyond the domain of the IT department.
believe IaaS delivers exceptional operational perfor- These investments are driving significant improvements
mance in terms of speed and availability, an 18% quar- in productivity and giving organizations the ability to
ter-over-quarter increase. Over half of respondents shift resource to projects that make valuable contribu-
(61%) found their organization experienced improved tions from those that are just keeping the lights on. The
productivity from their migration to cloud, while just over survey also reveals the expectation from respondents
half (53%) found their IT teams have greater scope to that IaaS will help them deliver on transformation and
work on other value-adding projects. innovation ambitions, which will return even greater
ROI. The challenge for the minority of businesses still
The study also revealed that two thirds of businesses holding back, is the clear risk of falling behind more
(67%) believe that companies not investing in IaaS will agile rivals, and the struggle they will have to catch up."
struggle to keep up with those that are using it. The ◊
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