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IT Professionals Want to Embrace Cloud Services, Update IT Infrastructure and Expand Job RolesRESTON, Va., Nov. 20, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Internap Corporation (NASDAQ: INAP), a leading-edge provider of high-performance data center and cloud solutions with global network connectivity, announced the results of its annual State of IT Infrastructure Management report, which surveyed more than 500 IT professionals about their organization’s current and future plans for IT infrastructure. While the majority of IT professionals would give their current IT infrastructure an above average grade, only one in four would say it’s worthy of an “A.” When asked why their infrastructure didn’t receive top marks, the top two reasons were that the infrastructure is not fully optimized for the organization’s applications and the fact that IT professionals are spending too much time managing and maintaining the infrastructure (both at 42 percent). Additionally, nearly 9 in 10 organizations (88 percent) with on-premise data centers will be moving at least some of their workloads to the cloud, managed hosting or colocation in the next three years. Overall, IT professionals expect a 38 percent reduction in their on-premise workloads by 2022. Where infrastructure is located does have an impact on how IT feels about their systems, as a majority (70 percent) feel that hybrid and multicloud strategies have made management easier to some extent. With so many organizations migrating their infrastructure, the end for on-premise data centers is likely imminent. The main reasons for this shift are to increase network performance (42 percent), improve scalability (41 percent), improve resiliency/availability (41 percent) and improve security (37 percent). “The role of the IT professional is changing, and for he second consecutive year, they are making it known that they want to lead digital transformation initiatives,” said Jennifer Curry, INAP SVP of Global Cloud Services. “The results show IT professionals would much rather spend their time assessing their systems for outsourcing (cloud readiness) or designing complex multi-service environments rather than performing routine tasks which can be easily outsourced, such as monitoring their infrastructure. These activities would have a larger business impact and add more value to their organization, so IT leaders should use this as a wake-up call and figure out how to adjust their strategies accordingly.” Additional findings from INAP’s State of Infrastructure Management Report include:
Additional data and analysis, including a comparison in perspectives from senior IT leaders and non-senior IT professionals can be found in INAP’s State of IT Infrastructure Management report. Survey Methodology For continuing coverage and more data from this survey visit: www.INAP.com/blog. About INAP For more information, visit www.INAP.com. For more information, contact: |