Modernizing Storage for the Cloud Era
Although the government has been slower than the private sector to adopt the cloud, there's no doubt that the shift is underway. IDC says "Cloud First" will become the new mantra for enterprise IT, noting that the major innovations taking place in IT today are not possible without the cloud as a foundation.
By the end of the decade, IDC predicts that enterprise spending on cloud services and related hardware, software and management will exceed $500 billion, more than three times what it is today. Other research projects that more than 50% of all workloads will be running in a cloud environment within two years.