{"id":1090,"date":"2017-05-02T23:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microdium.net\/public\/2017\/05\/02\/cloud-growth-slows-slightly\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T23:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:40:27","slug":"cloud-growth-slows-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2017\/05\/02\/cloud-growth-slows-slightly\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Growth Slows, Slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cloud is still growing by leaps and bounds, but not as fast as it was at the beginning of the decade. But it is unclear if this represents a long-term trend as the market reaches the front end of a traditional bell curve, or just a minor pause in the technology\u2019s ultimate takeover of the enterprise data environment.<\/p>\n

According to IDC, vendor revenue from the sale of cloud-based infrastructure products grew by 9.2 percent in 2016<\/a>. This represents a healthy market of $32.6 billion, but it still represents a drawback of about $4.5 billion from what the company had predicted based on earlier growth data. The company suspects that part of this is due to a slowdown in the hyperscale market, but it can also be attributed to the fact that many companies have migrated some of their workload to the cloud and are seeing how it performs before moving forward. And it is important to note that cloud revenues are increasing while spending on traditional data center infrastructure is declining on the order of about 9 percent per quarter.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t to say that the enterprise is ready to give up on the local data center just yet. According to a recent survey from the Uptime Institute, the percentage of workloads residing in enterprise owned and operated facilities has been stable at about 65 percent since 2014<\/a>. To the institute, this means that regardless of what happens with the public cloud, local data center infrastructure will remain as a critical asset for most enterprises as they pursue digital-centric strategies.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.itbusinessedge.com\/blogs\/infrastructure\/cloud-growth-slows-slightly.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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The cloud is still growing by leaps and bounds, but not as fast as it was at the beginning of the decade. But it is unclear if this represents a long-term trend as the market reaches the front end of a traditional bell curve, or just a minor pause in the technology\u2019s ultimate takeover of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1091,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-recovery-cybersecurity-news-malaysia","tag-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}