Executives Increasingly Hedging Their Public Cloud Bets, Survey Shows
August 18, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Joe McKendrick.
Given the attention and hyperbole given to public cloud computing these days, one can be forgiven for thinking that on-premises computing is destined for the history books. However, a new survey suggests a resurgence of interest in on-premises computing, via private cloud, is underway — with today’s IT executives opting to mix and match both inside and outside IT resources in new ways.
Computing resources and applications come from enterprises’ data centers, from data centers in other business units, from outside partners and vendors, and from outside cloud-based services. Few executives foresee their organizations relying on one single source — they fully intend to mix and match all available resources for future business computing needs…
That’s the key takeaway of a new study of 400 IT executives, sponsored by Rackspace, which finds many enterprises find public cloud in and of themselves too limiting. Rather, many respondents are seeing more logic in adopting a hybrid cloud infrastructure — public cloud, private cloud and dedicated servers working together in any combination — for critical workloads…
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