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Top IT trends to watch in 2016 hybrid cloud
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• By 2018, at least half of IT spending will be cloud based, reaching 60% of all IT infrastructure and 60-70% of all software, services, and technology spending by 2020. (IDC)
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• By 2018, over 50% of enterprises will create and/or partner with industry cloud platforms to distribute their own innovations or source others. (IDC)
• The cloud market is estimated to grow from USD 58 billion in 2013 to USD 198 billion in 2020, with a USD 70 billion dollar target for private cloud by 2018 (Gartner).
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2016 IT trends Hybrid cloud The most important cloud trends we’ll see in
2016 will occur beyond hybrid cloud and within the area of hybrid IT. What, if anything, is the difference? ‘Cloud’ is a buzzword that the market often uses in the broadest sense of the term, meaning anything other than on-premise, company-owned computing infrastructure. Hybrid cloud is a subset of hybrid IT and refers to when an organisation uses multiple cloud models to respond to its business needs, which may include private, hosted, or public cloud options. However, when we add the organisation’s own on-premise computing capabilities and co-located assets into the mix, the model becomes hybrid IT. Here are the trends we expect to see in this area.
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New managed private cloud offerings with consumption-based commercial models continue to attract the savviest IT decision-makers with a ‘cloud-first’ strategy. Now, that’s all changed. Today it’s all about honing your ability to exploit data and finding ways to turn it into business value. The new private cloud models are accelerating the migration of non-cloud-native, critical, enterprise-grade applications to the cloud. It will also provide added benefits of elevating the IT department to a service provider of choice for the enterprises they support.
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Increase in private cloud adoption
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With the first incarnations of opex-based hybrid cloud models now up and running, and with applications having run on these solutions for some time, organisations are starting to gain a better view of the costs and performance associated with their cloud choices.
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Greater transparency and analytics of the spend to optimise infrastructure against business objectives
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Organisations used to be able to physically isolate their workloads by putting a firewall around the physical IT estate. Moving increasingly to a hybrid IT model, the very first question they need to ask is how to set up their security in order to protect their greatest asset, data, while no longer being the primary custodian of that data.
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A greater focus on managing security across virtual boundaries
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