Productivity, sustainability, innovation, collaboration, security, customer satisfaction—the promise of digital transformation to deliver any number of game-changing results is driving organizations’ strategies to accelerate growth in an uncertain climate.
But as organizations increasingly migrate infrastructure to multi-cloud environments and incorporate such emerging technologies as edge computing and internet of things (IoT), the complexity of information technology (IT) is impeding success, according to 82% of respondents to a recent survey of large enterprises around the world.
Conversely, 46% of the survey’s respondents said reducing IT complexity drives innovation. And as leading organizations in a range of sectors—including telecommunications, government, automotive, and health care—transition to multi-cloud, some identify IT simplicity as critical to their efforts to strengthen operations, increase productivity, accelerate…
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