A CIF presentation for Fujitsu's Expert Talks on their stand at Tech Show London/Cloud Expo Europe on 8-9 March 2023. It covered a work in progress snapshot of CIF's latest research on the Hybrid Cloud/Multi Cloud landscape. Highlighted that Security and Sustainability are top of mind, and then went on to explain why David Terrar thinks 2023 is a tipping point and the start of the Third Wave of the Internet (incorporating web 3.0, Web3, generative AI, eXtended Reality, virtual reality, and the new ways we will be interacting with technology using voice, gestures, vision and eye tracking).

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State of the Cloud, Now and Next
Cloud Expo Europe 2023 with Fujitsu
David Terrar – Director & Chair
@UK_CIF & @DT

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CIF Members and Partners

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Objectives/Agenda
 A work in progress summary of our latest research report 25
 Some key highlights of what’s happening now
 My thoughts on where we are heading next

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Survey Methodology and Sampling
 Cross industry:
 Public Sector
 Manufacturing and Production
 Financial Services
 Retail
 IT & Technology
 50 - 99 Employees
 100 - 249 Employees
 250 - 499 Employees
 500 - 999 Employees
 1,000 - 2,999 Employees
 3,000 or more
IT Decision Makers and Business Decision Makers

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12 years of Research – 25 White Papers/Reports
2019 - Cloud, The Next Generation
 all organisations are consciously using cloud-based services to some
extent and are realising significant benefits in terms of flexibility, agility
and cost
2020 - The Changing Role of the IT Department
 competition in any industry is fierce, so the number of projects being
carried out by IT departments will grow exponentially in the coming
months and years - this is especially true as emerging technologies gain
more of a foothold

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More Than 10 years of Research
2021 - Adapt, Innovate, Advance – Digital Transformation in the COVID era
 the pandemic has upended everything, leading businesses the world over to
rapidly overhaul their transformation plans, review forecasts, but remote
working brought into sharp relief the importance of the use of cloud services
2022 - The Transformational Impact Of Cloud
 after two years of upheaval and uncertainty, businesses are finally looking to
the future with a sense of greater positivity - we can never be sure what
disruptive event is just around the corner, but armed with the data and
insights from our research, you can build a strategy to be prepared

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Working Title
2023 - Breaking new ground with Cloud
 How cloud’s potential is greater than ever before…

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What is your organisation's current cloud technology
Cloud first – migrating to cloud as soon as possible 42%
Hybrid (blended cloud/on-premises) 55%
On-premises technology wherever possible 2%

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2023 CIF research highlights – the cloud landscape

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10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
Security Cloud
migration
Data Controlling IT
costs
IT
Sustainability
Most important IT projects
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
IT Security Lack of
budget
Lack of IT
skills
Lack of
culture for a
digital first
approach
Lack of a
clear
strategy
Top challenges <12 months
2023 CIF research highlights – the cloud landscape

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Why, if at all, have cloud migration projects failed?
Legacy technology wasn’t compatible 28%
Lack of skills or resource 24%
Budget – it got too expensive 22%
We scaled up too quickly 18%
Our IT partner let us down 14%
We didn’t test it thoroughly enough 14%
We didn’t plan enough time 13%
We chose the wrong cloud platform 12%
Lack of planning (Historical 2021) 0%

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ESG and Sustainability when choosing cloud vendors?
Extremely important 30%
Very important 52%
Not very important 14%
Not important at all 4%
Don’t know 0%

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Has your digital transformation changed in the last 2 years?
We’ve sped up our digital transformation plans 68%
They have not changed 24%
We’ve slowed down our digital transformation plans 6%
Don’t know 1%

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How important are these Technologies in the next 5 years?
Cloud infrastructure 98%
Cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) 94%
Cloud native applications 94%
Blockchain 70%
Artificial Intelligence (AI) 86%
Internet of Things (IoT) 84%
Machine Learning 90%
Big data and/or Analytics 97%
Virtual Reality (VR) 63%
Augmented Reality (AR) 68%
The Metaverse 68%

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Thoughts on Now and Next
 We live in a Hybrid Cloud/Multicloud World
 We live in a complex Cloud landscape
 Security is top of mind
 Data is key
 Cloud technology is the enabler
 As well as technology, the heart of cloud is a consumption model
 Cost control means the rise of FinOps
 What about the Third Wave of the Internet?

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1967 - 2007 – From Mainframe to Web 1.0 – 3IR
We live in Exponential as well as Revolutionary times
2007- 2019 – Digital Transformation – Web 2.0 – 4IR
2020 - 2022 – The Pandemic Shift – 4IR
2023… – The Third Wave of the Internet – Web 3.0 – 4IR

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2007-2022 – Web 2.0 and the Digital Enterprise
Wave
2007
• Jobs turns 180 degrees and opens up the iPhone
• Zuckerberg turns down $1Bn, opens up Facebook
• Twitter took flight and became a company
• Netflix starts streaming video

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2023 and beyond - the Third Wave of the Internet
Jonathan Wright
Chief Technology Evangelist
Keysight

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Thank You
David Terrar
david@cloudindustryforum.org
Connect with me and CIF on LinkedIn
@UK_CIF & @DT
07715 159423