ISG Provider Lens™ report finds about 70 percent of U.K.
enterprises using more than one cloud provider
LONDON, Jan. 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprises in
the U.K. are realizing the power of cloud services and solutions to
address customer needs, and many are using more than one cloud
vendor to meet their business requirements, according to a new
report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq:
III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.
The 2019 ISG Provider Lens™ Public Cloud — Solutions
& Service Partners U.K. Report finds about 70 percent of U.K.
enterprises are focused on a multicloud strategy, with small and
medium-sized businesses increasingly adopting cloud-native
solutions.
"Cloud adoption in the U.K. is seen to be more cost effective,
scalable, secure and flexible than legacy alternatives," said
Barry Matthews, partner and head of
ISG U.K. "Hyperscale cloud providers are investing and innovating
to ensure their U.K. customers continue their cloud journeys to
stay competitive in the European and global markets."
The report sees U.K. enterprises embracing multicloud
environments because each cloud provider has specific strengths
related to vertical solutions, prices and other factors.
Enterprises want to test how each cloud hyperscaler fits with their
needs as they look for the right partner and not just a commodity
service provider.
While U.K. businesses are interested in multicloud environments,
the report sees some barriers to this setup, with orchestration a
significant challenge. Customers are increasingly adopting various
tools to manage the complexity of a multicloud setup, but many of
the tools still lack maturity.
In addition, customers see potential barriers with vendor
lock-in by the public cloud provider and a lack of interoperability
between multiple public cloud providers.
The U.K. cloud market is also seeing major changes
in the managed services partner ecosystem, the report finds. Some
smaller service providers are gaining traction with their unique
offerings focused on public cloud managed services for multicloud
environments. Several of these smaller providers are being acquired
by large system integrators as a way to either eliminate
competition or to acquire a niche capability or client segment.
In addition, the report finds a growing
Infrastructure-as-a-Service market in the U.K. Some U.K. businesses
have been able to eliminate their depreciated hardware and move
completely to the cloud. This is less of an option for larger
organizations with heavy infrastructure investments, with many of
them expected to continue maintaining hybrid IT and multicloud
environments. However, with the need for organizations to enhance
their data security, many enterprises have started to migrate their
critical workloads to public cloud platforms.
The 2019 ISG Provider Lens Public Cloud — Solutions
& Service Partners U.K. Report evaluates the capabilities of 54
providers across seven quadrants: Public Cloud Transformation
Services, Managed Public Cloud Services, Managed Public Cloud
Services for AWS, Managed Public Cloud Services for Azure, Managed
Public Cloud Services for GCP, aPaaS – Application Development
Platforms as a Service, and IaaS – (Hyperscale) Infrastructure
as a Service.
The report names Accenture and Infosys as leaders in five
quadrants, and Capgemini, Fujitsu, HCL, TCS and Wipro as leaders in
four. DXC Technology is named as a leader in three quadrants, while
Atos, AWS, Google, Microsoft and Rackspace are named as leaders in
two. Claranet, Cloudreach and Cognizant are leaders in one
quadrant.
A customized version of the report is available from
Claranet.
The 2019 ISG Provider Lens Public Cloud —Solutions &
Service Partners U.K. Report is available to ISG Insights™
subscribers or for one-time purchase on this webpage.
About ISG Provider Lens™ Research
The ISG Provider
Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only service provider
evaluation of its kind to combine empirical, data-driven research
and market analysis with the real-world experience and observations
of ISG's global advisory team. Enterprises will find a wealth of
detailed data and market analysis to help guide their selection of
appropriate sourcing partners, while ISG advisors use the reports
to validate their own market knowledge and make recommendations to
ISG's enterprise clients. The research currently covers providers
offering their services globally, across Europe and Latin
America, as well as in the U.S., Germany, the U.K., the
Nordics and Brazil, with
additional markets to be added in the future. For more information
about ISG Provider Lens research, please visit
this webpage.
The series is a complement to the ISG Provider Lens Archetype
reports, which offer a first-of-its-kind evaluation of providers
from the perspective of specific buyer types.
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq:
III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm. A
trusted business partner to more than 700 clients, including more
than 70 of the top 100 enterprises in the world, ISG is committed
to helping corporations, public sector organizations, and service
and technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster
growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services,
including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory;
managed governance and risk services; network carrier services;
strategy and operations design; change management; market
intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006,
and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG
employs more than 1,300 digital-ready professionals operating in
more than 20 countries—a global team known for its innovative
thinking, market influence, deep industry and technology expertise,
and world-class research and analytical capabilities based on the
industry's most comprehensive marketplace data. For more
information, visit www.isg-one.com.
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