A new study reveals that IT teams are under immense pressure to modernize faster than necessary. A new report, “IT Leader Insights: The State of IT Modernization Priorities and Challenges Amid Economic Headwinds,” conducted by Pure Storage in collaboration with Wakefield Research, surveyed 500 IT buyers at companies with more than 500 employees in four major global markets (US, UK, France, Germany).
The survey found that the three main target areas for buying and investing are AI/machine learning (52 percent), sustainable technology (51 percent), and infrastructure automation or orchestration (46 percent). Additionally, four out of five IT buyers plan to invest in emerging technologies due to the current economic climate.
Unfortunately, 90 percent of IT buyers said the pressures of their digital transformation agenda led them to buy technology that their infrastructure couldn’t support. This resulted in 74 percent of respondents admitting that the new technology was unable to meet management expectations. Moreover, 76 percent of respondents expect “greater scrutiny of purchasing decisions” over the next five years.
Nearly all respondents (99 percent) plan to modernize their IT infrastructure to better support future technology investments over the next five years. The top areas of IT infrastructure that need updating to better support the adoption of new technology are network and security (58 percent), data management or storage (52 percent), and data center facilities (50 percent).
