Build cloud-native applications in a hybrid multi-cloud world

 　　In today's modern enterprise, optimizing the application cycle is critical. It helps organizations keep up with consumer expectations, maintain business operational agility, and accelerate the pace of innovation.

　　Enterprises that value customer experience innovation will soon discover the value of adopting a cloud-native development model. The adoption of cloud-native development has both application-specific requirements and deployment-related motivations.

　　Enterprises looking to transform their applications are considering cloud-native development and deployment of their most critical workloads. These enterprises are typically already on a digital journey but need to implement new business model-led operations at scale in growth markets (IoT, blockchain, artificial intelligence [AI], big data, etc.) or have deployed a large number of legacy technologies, such as IBM Mainframe.

　　Cloud-native application development is the key to digital transformation and innovation. Organizations that adopt cloud-native application development see significant increases in efficiency, scalability and productivity, as well as improvements in user experience. Cloud-native application development enables organizations to leverage the power of the cloud by reducing time-to-market, increasing scalability, enhancing flexibility and improving the consumer experience, while also reducing costs.

　　Cloud-native application development in a multi-cloud environment enables organizations to develop and deploy applications faster. It can also help organizations achieve business agility and improve responsiveness to change. Initially, cost savings and efficiency were the primary drivers for using cloud-native application development, but more recently, the drivers have been the need to increase the speed and agility of application delivery to unlock the potential for business innovation.

　　Cloud-native application development has also led to a movement to transform application delivery methods and componentize development and deployment activities through microservices, container technologies and APIs. Despite the growing maturity of cloud-native development technologies, some organizations are rushing to get on board without an effective cloud strategy or sound operating model. As a result, these organizations often struggle to achieve their initial goals.

　　Increasing business agility and speed has become an enterprise imperative, prompting many organizations to explore and use cloud-native application development as a means of addressing their immediate needs. The accelerated pace of information exchange and increased competition from new businesses and cloud-native startups are putting pressure on traditional organizations to overhaul their application delivery practices.

　　This IDC white paper explores the business needs that organizations are focused on, how these needs impact the way organizations manage their application portfolios and application delivery methods, and the key challenges organizations must overcome as they respond to change. This white paper also describes how IBM's cloud application development services and cloud technologies can help organizations establish an appropriate cloud-native development strategy. With the right strategy in place, these organizations will be able to effectively conduct application development to facilitate rapid business innovation and improve business performance, taking full advantage of the benefits that modern application development can provide.

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