Half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud by 2017, says Gartner

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

About half of large enterprises will have adopted a hybrid cloud computing model in the next four years, according to analyst firm Gartner. The findings show an appetite among enterprises for cloud services that combine public cloud scalability and private datacentre security principles.

According to a Gartner special report on the outlook for cloud, hybrid cloud computing implementation will gather pace as private cloud matures. Hybrid cloud today is at the same level of adoption that private cloud was three years ago — actual deployments are low, but aspirations are high, said Gartner…

But in the last three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of large enterprises, said the report. Hybrid cloud is taking the same maturity path and will become a reality in 50% of enterprises by 2017, it found…

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