Hype and fuss surround the cloud, with analysts pointing toward its omnipresence in future enterprise technology deployments. For some, the momentum of innovation depends on cloud-based workloads; companies without cloud will be left behind.
Yet, businesses are a long way from cloud-only deployments.
In a few decades, “probably after we’re all long retired, we want to have separate data, we want to have it structured a nice way, we want to have it all in a cloud appropriately, but we are so far away from that,” said Jim Whitehurst, president of IBM, speaking during a hybrid cloud panel hosted by Protocol last week.