300 respondents representing APAC in survey were fielded for their collective experiences in their organizations’ cloud strategies

Through an online Dec 2023 – Jan 2024 survey of 1,000 networking and security decision-makers and influencers across the globe* deemed knowledgeable about their organization’s public cloud environment, on their cloud strategies and the associated outcomes, some trends were discerned from the data from respondents representing the Asia Pacific region.

First, 51% of APAC respondents were “more likely to be in the least-mature cohort as compared to peers in the rest of the world (51% versus 46%)” in terms of hybrid multi-cloud maturity level, and 14% were deemed more likely to be leading the pack, versus 11% globally.

Second, 37% reported high collaboration during development, and 36% reported the same for incident and outage management, compared to global averages of 46% and 42% respectively. Respondents representing APAC were deemed to lean more on cloud service provider-specific data documentation initiative tools (41% vs 31%). Also, in terms of using common tools across network and security teams APAC was 33% vs the survey’s global average of 27%).

Other findings

When asked if cloud networking and security technologies were materially improving ITOps and SecOps outcomes in the cloud, the top three benefits of technology investments cited by respondents representing APAC were: improved cross-cloud visibility (76%); elevated satisfaction of line-of-business stakeholders (71%); and enhanced pace of service delivery and innovation (63%). Also, those APAC respondents hailing from organizations deemed as cloud strategy maturity leaders:

  • indicated a 20.5%-larger reduction in cloud costs relative to if those solutions were not in place.
  • reported approximately 25%-fewer incidents of downtime or degrader performance. In scenarios where downtimes still occurred, they indicated they were 4.8 times more confident in restoring service within minutes, instead of hours or days.
  • 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%).

According to Paul Wilcox, Vice President (Asia Pacific & Japan), Infoblox, the firm that commissioned the survey, the APAC respondents had gained “substantial benefits easily by enhancing collaboration, adopting advanced DDI solutions, and leveraging DNS for security,” to converge networking, security, and cloud operations.

*from North America (U.S. and Canada), Western Europe, (France, Germany, Spain, and the U.K.), and the parts of the Asia-Pacific region (300 from Australia, India, Japan, New Zealand, and Singapore).