Hey You, Get Off Of That Cloud
September 20, 2014
Grazed from CRN. Author: Joseph F. Kovar.
The allure of the cloud is irresistible. Businesses are drawn to the cloud for the promise of flexible compute and storage resources, little or no up-front capital expenses, and the far-from-certain idea that using the cloud costs less than on-premise IT.
However, there is also a large segment of the business market for which the cloud is not the final answer to their IT requirements. And for those looking to get off the cloud and back down to earth, they have as allies their local solution providers who can help find the right balance of cloud and non-cloud technology. There is no doubt businesses are moving part or all of their IT workloads to some sort of cloud…
Forrester Research, for instance, this spring projected that the public cloud market will reach $191 billion by 2020, up significantly from $58 billion in 2013. Cloud applications will lead the growth, reaching a value of $133 billion in 2020. It will be followed by $44 million in cloud platforms and $14 billion in cloud business services by then, Forrester predicts…
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