Large Enterprises Float Toward Hybrid Clouds
October 7, 2013
Grazed from IT Jungle. Author: Jenny Thomas.
Whether you are part of a large enterprise or a small business, it is inconceivable to think your company is not aware of the explosion in cloud computing in recent years. Even if a cloud deployment isn’t in your organization’s immediate future, keeping an eye on the trends can help you make a better decision about going cloud should the time ever come.
The analysts at Gartner make it their business to follow what’s happening in IT, and there has been some movement in the cloud market that has caught their attention. In a recent report, Gartner says nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. Which means there must be some serious cloud action happening when you consider 2017 is really right around the corner at less than four years away…
Gartner analysts have seen private cloud computing move from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of large enterprises in recent years. Now those analysts believe hybrid cloud computing, in which some resources are managed internally and some are managed by external suppliers, is at the same place today that private cloud was three years ago; as actual deployments are low, but aspirations are high…
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