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HE BENEFITS OF cloud
T technology are widely accepted , and adoption has accelerated over the last 12 months due to the urgent need for digitalisation .
According to the International Data Corporation ( IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker , vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products ( server , enterprise storage and Ethernet switch ) for cloud environments , including public and private cloud , increased 9.4 % year over year in the third quarter of 2020 while investments in traditional , non-cloud , IT infrastructure declined .
IDC believes the hardware infrastructure market has reached a tipping point and cloud environments will continue to account for an increasingly greater share of overall spending .
But as businesses , and SMEs in particular , rightly look to the cloud to enable business growth , it ’ s crucial that they take a strategic approach . We hear from three industry experts who give their take on just how this can be achieved .
Simon Bennett , EMEA CTO of Rackspace Technology
Simon Bennett , EMEA CTO of Rackspace Technology
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The benefits of cloud computing are now well known in terms of streamlining operations , minimising IT costs and offering increased flexibility , scalability and security . Most businesses already leverage the cloud in some way . But what many don ’ t have is an effective cloud management strategy in place to ensure they are reaping all of its benefits .
Choosing the right deployment model is a good place to start , with the help of professional services consultants who can assess the current technology landscape . The realisation many businesses will come to is that the answer is multi-cloud – utilising different cloud environments that provide optimal performance for the business ’ needs . In fact , recent research found that many have already come to this realisation . Whilst the majority of businesses ( 67 %) were already either in progress or planning to move to a multi or hybrid cloud model in 2020 , the
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BUT WITH WORKLOADS SPREAD ACROSS MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTS , HOW DO BUSINESSES ENSURE THEY ARE EFFECTIVELY MANAGED ?
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