IT Focus Area: cloud

Organizations are shifting toward a multi-cloud strategy to innovate and digitize in today’s competitive business climate because they need to do more with less and think cloud first.

As a result, enterprises are connecting their storage array to a public cloud platform and using different public cloud environments for different workloads.

Consider this information as you read the infographic below:

• On average, cloud users are running applications in 4 clouds while experimenting with 4 more
• 50 percent of enterprise IT organizations expect to shift most of their workloads to off-premises cloud or colocation by 2020.
• 85 percent of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy in 2017, up from 82 percent in 2016