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Cloud:

Are we there yet?

Adoption of Cloud, Microservices and DevOps
among communications & media companies

The need for greater agility and innovation

is driving adoption

More than

82%

of companies agree the need for greater business agility and innovation drives adoption of cloud native technologies and DevOps practices

36%

of companies agree cost optimization drives cloud native and DevOps adoption

by 2022

Hybrid cloud
will be
mainstream

2017
Today, over 80% of BSS & OSS systems run on physical or virtualized data centers
0% Hybrid Cloud
18% Private Cloud
36% Virtualized
45% Physical
2022
0% Physical
9% Virtualized
27% Private Cloud
64% Hybrid Cloud
By 2022, over 90% will run on cloud infrastructure, with over 60% on hybrid cloud

Strategic roadmaps

to adopt cloud native
are in place

 
 

82%

have a roadmap in place for evolving their Digital, BSS & OSS systems to cloud native technologies or are proactively working on a plan

18%

lack a roadmap

 
 

Microservices will be required

 

64%

say microservices architecture will be a requirement for new systems within 2 years

 

BUT

managing
cloud native
and traditional
applications
together
will be
challenging

 

91%

of companies believe operating cloud native systems alongside traditional ones will be a critical challenge

64%

will need to re-skill
their workforce

27%

will need to rely
on a third party

 

Significant experimentation with DevOps

But mainstream adoption
will take time
 
 

45%

Already using DevOps in limited areas of the organization

 

27%

are evaluating DevOps

 

18%

have a plan to adopt DevOps in the next 1-2 years

 

9%

No Activitty

Most are not ready for continuous
releases*, despite the desire for
greater agility

* Continuous releases means testing and deploying new code into production frequently (e.g. every few weeks)

 

18%

are ready now for
continuous releases

82%

will stay with traditional methods for next 2-3 years (e.g. deploy changes every 6-12 months)

 
 

Download the full report

Amdocs Cloud Maturity Model for communications and media companies enables companies to assess where they are in their journey to cloud and to build the right roadmap. To find out more, visit: https://www.amdocs.com/technology/cloud

 
 

Source: in-depth survey of communications and media service providers in North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific conducted by Analysys Mason on behalf of Amdocs, September 2017.