{"id":4585,"date":"2023-12-12T16:19:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T03:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2023\/12\/12\/ccl-2023-cloud\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:33:50","slug":"ccl-2023-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2023\/12\/12\/ccl-2023-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Some thoughts on CCL&#8217;s 2023 State of New Zealand Cloud Transformation Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CCL published the second annual <a href=\"https:\/\/concepts.co.nz\/2023\/ccl-2023-state-of-new-zealand-cloud-transformation-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">State of New Zealand Cloud Transformation Report<\/a> in late August. Four key themes are explored (and in color-coded sections, too) &#8211; cloud adoption, cloud models, cloud operations, and emerging technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Headline findings from our POV:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cloud adoption<\/strong> &#8211; cloud platforms are increasingly important to NZ organizations, driven by cost reduction and efficiency goals. Self-assessed maturity with cloud adoption has regressed year-on-year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cloud models<\/strong> &#8211; private and public clouds are the dominant model today, but this will be supplanted by hybrid cloud and multi-cloud (at least two disparate clouds) in the future. This trend is driven by flexibility and scalability and disaster recovery \/ failover between clouds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cloud operations<\/strong> &#8211; 88% of NZ firms plan to maintain or increase use of managed service providers. Dominant cloud workloads are collaboration and productivity (52% fully in the cloud, 25% partially in the cloud) plus storage and backup (50% fully, 30% partially). The greatest uncertainty on workloads in the cloud is core business e.g., manufacturing or supply-chain (16% combined for don&#8217;t know or won&#8217;t move to the cloud) and development and testing (also 16% combined). <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Emerging technology<\/strong> &#8211; organizations are most likely to have adopted several types of emerging technologies &#8211; #1 = data sets or data analytics, #2 = IoT, #3 = AI, and #4 = low code \/ no code technologies. The adoption maturity profile is different than the adoption pattern, however: #1 = low code \/ no code, #2 = data sets or data analytics, #3 = virtual reality \/ augmented reality, and #4 IoT. ML and AI in second-to-last and last places respectively in the list of 8 options. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the cloud adoption section, the following diagram shows the challenges faced with adopting or managing cloud (see page 11 in the report):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ccl-cloud-challenges.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If we look at the non-challenges side of how respondents answered the question, then we&#8217;d say this about adopting and managing cloud in NZ by NZ organizations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>90% have been able to gain executive or wider business buy-in &#8211; and since the key adoption driver is saving money and cost efficiency, that&#8217;s not hard to see why.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>88% don&#8217;t have concerns about vendor lock-in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>83% don&#8217;t find cloud governance to be a concern.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>83% can manage multi-cloud with the tools they have available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>81% are fine with compliance posture, 79% with data sovereignty posture, and 78% with security posture.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The area that NZ organizations struggle with the most &#8211; 69% are okay but 31% are struggling &#8211; is with lack of resources and expertise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And based on those numbers, we&#8217;d say:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Good progress is being \/ has been made.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The move to a more complex setup (hybrid multi-cloud) is going to have the biggest effect for amplifying the challenge of resourcing and expertise, particularly where re-platforming, re-developing, and re-factoring are the chosen approaches versus switching to cloud-based solutions (&#8220;re-placing&#8221;) or lift-and-shift strategies (&#8220;re-hosting&#8221;) &#8211; per comments on page 21 of the report. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For more, <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.concepts.co.nz\/state-of-nz-cloud-transformation-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">request a copy<\/a> from CCL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCL published the second annual State of New Zealand Cloud Transformation Report in late August. 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