During the last two years, enterprises have significantly boosted their adoption of cloud technologies. A recent IDG study found that 79% of organizations have at least one application or infrastructure component in the cloud, and another 18% plan to deploy applications or infrastructure to the cloud in the next 12 months.
The sore points for enterprises hosting their applications on-premises are many, not least being high CapEx, performance issues, and lack of scalability and agility. But many enterprises that have embraced the cloud continue to use the same traditional on-premises approach for the platform lifecycle management.
