DataStax announced results from an IT Architecture Modernisation Trends survey, showing that 99 percent of IT execs were having problems with architecture modernisation and 98 percent report challenges with their corporate data architectures with vendor lock-in of particular concern.
The survey, conducted in conjunction with Dimensional Research and DataStax, takes the pulse of IT architecture modernisation trends by investigating current experiences with and plans to reduce complexity and cost around architecture modernization. Respondents included more than 300 executives who work for companies of more than 5,000 employees.
The report said that while architecture modernisation was necessary and hard: all respondents were modernising their technology architecture to reduce costs, improve customer and employee satisfaction, and gaining data-driven insights.
However, 99 percent report challenges with architecture modernization and no standards exist for funding new application development.
More than 85 percent of respondents have cloud initiatives as part of modernisation efforts, 72 percent were moving to a hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure, more than half of all new application architectures will support hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and 95 percent have concerns about vendor lock-in.
Data were the driving factor behind modernisation with 98 percent of respondents report challenges with their corporate data architectures with data silos topping the list, 99 percent say database architecture is important when building hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and 84 percent say that they are developing more real-time transactional applications.
Open source is increasingly valued by large organizations: 82 percent of respondents report that their teams are more receptive to open source today than five years ago, and half report open source is part of their architecture modernisation plans.
The report dives into all the key findings above, showing exactly how all respondents answered the questions and detailing the key drivers and challenges behind their architecture modernization efforts.
DataStax SVP and Chief Product Officer Robin Schumacher said: “While the cloud makes so many things around architectures much easier, it also creates additional data-related challenges. DataStax helps enterprises face those challenges so that architecture modernization goes from a daunting task to one that makes it easier for them to out-innovate their competition.”
