Companies in the Asia-Pacific region are sharply divided in terms of their hybrid, multi-cloud maturity level, with more mature organisations gaining significant benefits from their advanced posture, according to a report the Enterprise Strategy Group.
Commissioned by Infoblox, the report is based on insights from 1,000 networking and security decision-makers and influencers across the globe. These include 300 respondents from the APAC region — Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore.
“This research clearly shows that APAC organisations stand to gain substantial benefits easily by enhancing collaboration, adopting advanced DDI solutions, and leveraging DNS for security,” said Paul Wilcox, Infoblox VP in APAC and Japan.
The report finds that while APAC organisations show a fair degree of consistency with organisations across the globe in their hybrid, multi-cloud maturity level, they are more likely to be in the least-mature cohort as compared to peers in the rest of the world (51% versus 46%).
At the same time, 14% of APAC organisations are also more likely to be leading the pack, versus 11% globally.
Diving deeper into the report, network and security teams in the region show less collaboration on cloud strategies, with 37% reporting high collaboration during development and 36% during incident and outage management, compared to global averages of 46% and 42% respectively.
APAC organisations also lean more on CSP-specific DDI tools (41% vs 31%), suggesting a need for tool review and enhancement. However, APAC leads in using common tools across network and security teams (33% vs 27%), showcasing their integrated approach.
When asked if cloud networking and security technologies were materially improving ITOps and SecOps outcomes in the cloud, the results were clear.
The top three benefits of technology investments cited were improved cross-cloud visibility (76%), elevated satisfaction of line-of-business stakeholders (71%), and enhanced pace of service delivery and innovation (63%).
Additionally, Leaders also report the following advantages — cost efficiencies, improved resilience, and agile security.
APAC Leaders estimated a 20.5% larger reduction in cloud costs (relative to if those solutions were not in place).
Also, APAC Leaders reported 25% fewer incidents of downtime or degrader performance. In scenarios where downtimes occurred, they were 4.8 times more confident in restoring service within minutes, instead of hours or days.
Further, Leaders were more likely to detect suspicious activities faster (54% versus 21%), investigate anomalies promptly (51% versus 20%), and respond to actual attacks more efficiently (59% versus 29%).
