Cloud 2015: Continued, unrelenting disruption to traditional IT

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Kristen Lee.

In this third of three blog posts on IDC’s IT outlook for 2015, analysts tackled the topic of cloud. Here IDC’s Robert Mahowald, program vice president of SaaS and cloud services; Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president for enterprise system management software; and Rick Villars, vice president of data centers and cloud, outlined three ways in which the cloud will shake up IT ecosystems in 2015 and how IT leaders can prepare.

Hybrid cloud adds complexity to IT environments

IDC predicts that by 2016 more than 65% of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud technologies. “This is going to really drive a number of changes across the structure, management, and just operational velocity of many IT organizations,” Turner said. Enterprises are being driven to adopt hybrid cloud for a number of reasons, Turner said. These include the need for cloud service diversity, the demand by end users for more and more self-service IT, and the growth of OpenStack and open source containers…

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