Hybrid Cloud Dominance Is Here, and Self-Service IT Is Next
April 8, 2014
Grazed from MidSize Insider. Author: Rick Robinson.
Cloud computing has become the norm; and as the cloud skyscape matures and firms balance specific requirements with the advantages of flexibility, the trend is moving toward hybrid cloud dominance. Another result of cloud maturation is the growing prospect of self-service IT, particularly for developers. These cloud-centric trends are reshaping the IT environment at midsize firms. As traditional in-house IT fades among midsize firms, the new midsize IT is taking shape as a broker and manager of multiple and varied cloud resources.
The State of the Cloud Is Strong and Dynamic
As Serdar Yegulalp reports at InfoWorld, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider RightScale has released its 2014 State of the Cloud Report. The report’s headline finding should surprise no one by this point: The cloud has gone mainstream. The survey of more than a thousand IT professionals from firms of all sizes, both tech-oriented and otherwise, finds that most of them — 94 percent — have moved beyond the "Cloud Watcher" stage and have launched at least their first cloud operations…
Of particular note is that a full 58 percent of respondents have adopted hybrid cloud architectures, combining both public and private clouds. Furthermore, looking forward, the State of the Cloud Report sees self-service IT, particularly automated DevOps, as the new norm…
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