FEATURE
FEATURE
Andrew Brinded, Vice President and Sales
Chief Operating Officer, Nutanix, says
cloud provides the enabling deployment
model for the times in which we live and
its impact is set to grow.
Six reasons why
COVID-19 will accelerate
the rush to cloud
In 1991, the renowned technology
journalist, Stewart Alsop, made a
famously wrong forecast. “I predict that
the last mainframe will be unplugged on
March 15, 1996,” he wrote. But 23 years
later, the mainframe is still going strong.
For me, this underlines why it’s a
myth that IT is a fast-moving sector in
which revolutionary changes occur at
lightning speed.
The R&D side of tech is certainly dynamic
and often disruptive, but because of
technological complexity, cost of change,
procurement, security, management
inertia and myriad other factors, major
changes usually rollout slowly, over years
or even decades.
Even smaller changes can take time to hit
the mainstream: think about how long it
took for smartphones or laptops to enter
it. In IT as elsewhere, there will always be
early adopters, but there will also always
be laggards.
Cloud computing is the biggest IT shift
since client/server but despite its manifest
advantages and soaring popularity, cloud
has far from dominated the way that firms
deploy IT resources. Most established
I BELIEVE THAT
THE CURRENT
PANDEMIC IS
AN EVENT THAT
WILL SEE A
SIGNIFICANT
TILT TOWARDS
BROADER CLOUD
ADOPTION.
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