Cloud-First Will Replace “No-Cloud” Policy By 2020
Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance that dominated many large providers in recent years. Today, most provider technology innovation is cloud-centric, with the stated intent of retrofitting the technology to on-premises. By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-internet” policy is today, predicts research organization Gartner. “Aside from the fact that many organizations with a no-cloud policy actually have some under-the-radar or unavoidable cloud usage, we believe that this position will become increasingly untenable,” said Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at...