The Rise of Hybrid Cloud: Shaping Digital Infrastructure in Asia Pacific and Hong Kong

The necessity of digital enablement has become a permanent fixture in a constantly evolving business landscape, and organizations across the board are actively exploring ways to improve their business outcomes through digital transformation.

Cloud technology has emerged as a key component of digital transformation journeys in Asia Pacific, accelerating the adoption of digital capabilities. Statistics from the IDC InfoBrief commissioned by Digital Realty report show that:

• Over 77% of organizations currently operate in a multicloud or hybrid cloud environment. This percentage is expected to rise even further, reaching 84% within the next two years.
• 75% of organizations will engage with two or more public cloud providers as they strive to optimize the benefits offered by cloud computing to meet business objectives.
• In the next two years, 45% of organizations are expecting to implement advanced hybrid cloud environments.
• Organizations will rely on hybrid cloud as the foundation of their workload strategies, be it in a cloud or on-premises environment.

Increasingly, users will upgrade from basic multicloud setups to a hybrid cloud environment combining private and public cloud services that simplify sharing data and applications between the platforms. This move towards hybrid creates a need for strategic investment in digital infrastructure. Over the next 2 years, organizations in the region will accelerate look towards spending on the most suitable infrastructure, data, and applications to obtain the required digital capabilities to run their digital business.

Spotlight on Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a vital gateway for the exchange of goods, services, and capital between mainland China and the global market. As it leaves behind the Covid-19 restrictions of the past, companies in Hong Kong are prioritizing the migration of their data-centric workloads towards hybrid and multi-cloud. Notably, users in Hong Kong demonstrate a higher-than-average inclination to adopt a best fit strategy for optimizing their cloud environment and workload placement. Organizations also need to give due consideration to data protection and regulatory compliance in this market.

The IDC InfoBrief further elaborates on topics such as infrastructure capabilities needed to facilitate the migration of workloads across all deployment types, why multicloud management is becoming important as organizations become more data-driven and the adoption trends on Sovereign Clouds.

Find out more about Asia Pacific’s and Hong Kong’s transition towards hybrid cloud adoption by downloading the IDC InfoBrief.