“By 2025, 85% of infrastructure strategies will integrate on-premises, colocation, cloud and edge delivery options, compared with 20% in 2020,” according to Gartner.
As enterprises modernize to the cloud, I&O leaders should focus on workload placement based on business objectives and targeted outcomes. Balancing traditional data center environments with evolving cloud-based models requires new processes, organizational structures and management technologies.
Gartner, “Your Data Center May Not Be Dead, but It’s Morphing,” Henrique Cecci, David Cappuccio, 17 September 2020