The cloud services market is increasingly driven by customers with highly focused IT requirements. For instance, organizations want solutions built to address a variety of edge and distributed computing use cases and, as a result, they are no longer prepared to accept homogenous technologies that fall short of their requirements.
This is an understandable perspective. While cloud computing has become a compelling option for those with centralized business functions, it has proved less beneficial for organizations reliant on remote infrastructure. Processing and protecting data at the edge is a case in point, with some implementing cloud-first strategies without onsite support. The downside here is that mission-critical, remote applications can suffer from performance and reliability issues, with the knock-on effect that cloud contracts become costly and inefficient.
