“By the year 2020” isn’t the beginning of some young-adult dystopian sci-fi story. No, the painful reality is that by the year 2020, I’ll still be driving the same car I have now, and that car will still be under the manufacturer’s warranty. But the phrase “by the year 2020” is prominent in the latest installment of the Cisco Global Cloud Index, a report the company has published every year since 2011. The report notes trends regarding the number and nature of organizations moving their infrastructure to the cloud in some form.
The 2016 edition notes that by the year 2020, about 98 percent of all compute workloads will be processed by a cloud-based architecture. Out of that jaw-dropping percentage, 66.5 percent (or 68 percent of all cloud-based compute workloads) will be in public-cloud spaces such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, leaving 31.5 percent in private-cloud environments. Just these few numbers should provide a math-based context for the current gold-rush atmosphere surrounding investment in and development of cloud-centric tools and solutions.
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