FutureCIO: CIOs At The Helm Of Fortifying Data Resilience
FutureCIO, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
infrastructure continues to decline over the next two years." It predicts that by 2025, over 50% of businesses will modernise up to half of their cloud architecture to boost efficiency and drive innovation.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that traditional IT infrastructure like on-premises data centres is doing away. This implies that the IT team is on track towards a more complex IT infrastructure that includes both on-premises and cloud infrastructure, mobile devices, and connected IoT devices.
IDC's Data Age 2025 paper forecasts that in 2025, the global data sphere will grow to 163 zettabytes, 10 times what it was in 2016. As organisations strive to unlock unique user experiences and discover new world opportunities, the challenge for the CIO and IT team is managing, storing, and securing their most critical data.