Cisco: Cloud Will Soon Handle Most Data Center Workloads

Forbes.com (Dec 4 2011) Cloud Computing

1. There has been no shortage of predictions that the cloud will eventually lead to the demise, or diminished role, of corporate data centers. However, new industry data suggests that cloud computing will soon make data centers even busier places than ever. Cisco just released its first Global Cloud Index, and it has a clear message: it doesn’t matter if you’re using applications from your own data center or from somewhere else, they will be delivered from the cloud. Organization’s data centers will be moving to the cloud in a big way. And, by extension, chances are your own organization will be as much a cloud provider as one outside the firewall. This has interesting ramifications for any organization that maintains its own data centers and for the people who run those data centers. (Read Full Article)

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