Key Takeaways:
- Heavy industries such as industrials, manufacturing and utilities are focused on overhauling legacy network infrastructure to lay the foundation for emerging technologies.
- Network transformation can foster competitive advantage.
- A robust network strategy underpins employee experience, cloud connectivity and helps secure the organisation against cyber threats.
Infrastructure Modernisation
In 2021, ADAPT surveyed 150 CIOs and CTOs, and 118 cloud and data centre leaders from enterprise organisations above 2,500 employees.
These leaders represent organisations who employ over 12% of the Australian workforce and are responsible for approximately 39% of Australia’s GDP.
See appendix for Industry groupings and representation.
Across 268 respondents, 60% have an increased focus on infrastructure modernisation to achieve their business outcomes.
26% of respondents have increased funding related to upgrading infrastructure in areas including:
- network
- storage
- compute
Network modernisation…