Cloud budgets have expanded in the last two years. Although most see the pandemic as the cause, the reality is that IT dollars have shifted to the cloud for pragmatic reasons as well, such as shutting down aging data centers and upgrading security.
The mantra thus far has been “migrate, migrate, migrate,” lifting sets of applications and data from the traditional systems and plunking them down on one or more public clouds. Workload and data migration will continue to be where the money is being spent in the world of cloud computing.
