The Reliability Factor for Digital Businesses: Unlock Insights from IDC’s Latest Research!

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, technology isn’t just a support function – it is the business. As organizations increasingly rely on digital products and services for revenue, the demands on IT infrastructure have fundamentally shifted. Are you prepared for the future of digital business, and more importantly, for robust digital business reliability?

We’re excited to share a crucial resource that delves into these transformative changes: “The Reliability Factor for Digital Businesses,” an InfoBrief by IDC, sponsored by Penguin Solutions.

This comprehensive report offers invaluable insights for CEOs and CIOs navigating the complexities of modern IT. Discover why reliability, resilience, and strategic technology investments are more critical than ever to safeguard your digital revenue streams and drive sustained growth.

Key Takeaways You’ll Find Inside to Enhance Your Digital Business Reliability:

• The Digital Revenue Imperative: Learn how digital products and services now contribute significantly to organizational revenue (34% today, projected to rise to 49% in 5 years), and are projected to grow even further, with AI (especially Generative AI) playing a pivotal role.
• Risk Mitigation as a Top Priority: Understand why reducing risks while sustaining business growth is a paramount concern for CEOs, making improving risk management the second most important business priority and the number one investment priority for CEOs today. This directly impacts digital business reliability.
• Challenges of Digital Infrastructure Overspending: Explore the key factors contributing to organizations overspending on digital infrastructure, including excessive tech debt (26.8%), inefficient infrastructure management (13.9%), poorly managed public cloud spending (16.7%), too many uncoordinated infrastructure purchasing centers (20.8%), and a lack of business-aligned infrastructure strategy (21.8%). Addressing these is crucial for digital business reliability.
• Strategic IT Infrastructure Investments: See the top areas where CIOs are strategically investing, such as AI-optimized infrastructure (58.3%), IT operations staffing, training, skills, and automation (51.8%), and cybersecurity/resiliency (49.7%). These investments directly support digital business reliability.
• The Rise of AI and New System Requirements: Grasp how AI workloads (64.8%), data management (58.9%), and increasing automation (45.5%) are driving the need for new, highly resilient, and self-optimizing systems. Ensuring digital business reliability for AI systems is a growing concern.
• Fit-for-Purpose Infrastructure: Discover why on-premises environments still comprise the largest component of the IT environment in Asia/Pacific (41.63%), and why a “fit-for-purpose” approach to infrastructure is essential for secure and performant applications. This is a core aspect of digital business reliability.
• The Criticality of Cybersecurity and Resilience: Recognize that the resilience of infrastructure is, today, the most critical requirement for all organizations. Cybersecurity and resilience are identified by 59.5% of leaders as one of the most important criteria for deploying applications and data. This directly underpins digital business reliability.
• Building a Resilient Infrastructure Framework: Learn about the key elements for creating a robust digital infrastructure, emphasizing being trusted, AI-ready, autonomous operations, agile, edge-optimized, hybrid and multicloud, and sustainable. This framework aims to bolster digital business reliability.
• Overcoming AI Deployment Challenges: Identify the primary infrastructure-related hurdles in deploying Generative AI projects to production, including a lack of automation (36.1%), performance (26.1%), sustainability (24.4%), and cost (24.4%). Overcoming these improves digital business reliability for AI initiatives.
• The Growing Importance of Edge Computing: Understand how edge deployments are becoming crucial, especially for AI and operational technologies, requiring high performance, significant resilience, and self-optimization capabilities. Maintaining control over data/security mandates (41.5% AP, 29.6% WW) is a top priority driving edge deployment. This expands the scope of digital business reliability.

Read the Full IDC InfoBrief Now!

Register to access “The Reliability Factor for Digital Businesses” and arm yourself with the knowledge needed to build a resilient and future-proof digital infrastructure.

About the Report: This InfoBrief, authored by Simon Piff, Research Vice President at IDC Asia/Pacific, and sponsored by Penguin Solutions, offers a deep dive into the challenges and considerations for CEOs and CIOs in today’s digital-first world.

Don’t get left behind. Prioritize reliability, embrace resilience, and secure your digital future with enhanced digital business reliability!