Cloud Predictions-2019

Your Company in the Cloud

Shifting toward a whole-enterprise cloud. Cloud technology and its adoption have been transformative for nearly every business, industry, and product. From running applications that are always-on and available, to limitless infrastructure scalability, today’s enterprise technology norm is defined by these cloud capabilities. We’ve reached a remarkable tipping point, where enterprises are now outpacing consumers in their adoption of emerging technologies—including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, digital assistants, containers, serverless, and the Internet of Things (IoT). They’re no longer experimenting with these new technologies in a sandbox; they’re applying them in meaningful ways across their operations, driving new business, creating new value, and building more sophisticated applications than ever before. By 2025, we expect to see both cloud providers and the enterprises they serve move toward a next-generation cloud model where they have access to these new technologies, better security, improved price performance, and deep automation capabilities. In “Oracle’s Top 10 Cloud Predictions 2019,” we explore what the enterprise IT world will look like by 2025 as the adoption of cloud rises. Together, these predictions demonstrate the need for a complete enterprise cloud approach in the years to come, and provide a futurefacing view of how businesses will need to plan their move to a cloud-native IT environment.

Prediction #1

Second-generation cloud providers will offer 100% data-center replacement.

Prediction #2

80% of all enterprise (and mission-critical) workloads will move to the cloud.

Prediction #3

All applications will incorporate AI—further distancing themselves from legacy applications.

Prediction #4

AI (and emerging technologies) will double our productivity.

Prediction #5

85% of customer interactions will be automated.

Prediction #6

The developer community will expand 10× and productivity will increase by 400%.

Prediction #7

More than 50% of data will be managed autonomously.

Prediction #8

90% of enterprises will use a single identity platform that bridges premises and the cloud.

Prediction #9

The number of security events will increase 100×, and automation will become the most reliable way of preventing, detecting, and mitigating threats.

Prediction #10

70% of IT functions will be completely automated.