DataStax, the company behind a leading database built on Apache Cassandra, has announced results from an IT Architecture Modernization Trends survey, showing that 99% of IT execs report challenges with architecture modernisation and 98% report challenges with their corporate data architectures (data silos).
Vendor lock-in (95%) was of particular concern among respondents. The survey, conducted in conjunction with Dimensional Research and DataStax, investigates current experiences and plans to reduce complexity and cost around architecture modernisation.
Respondents included more than 300 executives who work for companies of more than 5,000 employees.
The resulting report provided a number of key insights, including:
- Architecture modernisation is both necessary and hard: 100% of respondents are modernising their technology architecture with the goals of reducing costs, improving customer and employee satisfaction, and gaining data-driven insights. However, 99% report challenges with architecture modernisation and no standards exist for funding new application development.
- Cloud flexibility is key: A total of 85% of respondents have cloud initiatives as part of modernisation efforts, 72% are 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% have concerns about vendor lock-in.
- Data is the driving factor behind modernisation: A total of 98% of respondents report challenges with their corporate data architectures with data silos topping the list, 99% say database architecture is important when building hybrid or multi-cloud environments and 84% say that they are developing more real-time transactional applications.
- Open source is increasingly valued by large organisations: A total of 82% of respondents report that their teams are more receptive to open source today than five years ago and 50% 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 modernisation efforts.
“What this report makes clear is that data is certainly the hardest part of architecture modernisation,” said DataStax SVP and Chief Product Officer Robin Schumacher.
“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 modernisation goes from a daunting task to one that makes it easier for them to out-innovate their competition.”
To learn more about the IT Architecture Modernization Trends 2019 survey, download the full report here.
