Companies are moving to incorporate the cloud into their computing infrastructure at a phenomenal rate. This is, without question, a very positive move. It permits companies to scale processing resources up and down in response to changing demands, giving companies the operational equivalent of unlimited resources while paying only for the resources that are actually used.
But there are side effects. Every trend that changes the computing infrastructure being protected has the potential to generate a change in the systems used to provide protection.
The move to the cloud would be better described as a stampede than a migration. According to a recent Uptime Institute survey of 1000 IT executives, a majority believe that more than 50% of workloads will reside in the cloud. Attendees at 2017 AWS Re:Invent believe that 83% of workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. Cisco believes that 94% will be cloud-based by 2021.