After reading through Cisco’s newly released Global Cloud Index (GCI), I was reminded of the old Bruce Barton saying: “When you are through changing, you are through.” In many ways, cloud computing is soon to reach its peak in terms of enterprise adoption. So, in some regard, we may think that the great IT story of cloud computing is over. Yet, there are other areas of the GCI report that show dramatic change — and thus our journey is far from over.
Take, for instance, the prediction that by 2021 “94% of workloads and compute instances will be processed by cloud data centers” while only “6% will be processed by traditional data centers.”
