Going into 2017, there’s a lot of debate concerning what percentage of application workloads will wind up in public clouds versus in a local data center. Public clouds are obviously growing at a faster rate off a much smaller base of instances. But the number of workloads running on-premises still dwarfs the number running on a public cloud.
Trey Layton, CTO of Dell EMC’s Converged Platforms & Solutions Division, says as cloud computing continues to mature, the relationship between public clouds and private clouds running in local data centers will be far more nuanced in the age of software-defined IT environments. Rather than merely thinking in terms of moving workloads from one environment to another, Layton says IT organizations will opt to deploy workloads based on security concerns and total cost to create applications that are federated across both public and private clouds.