Enterprises Will Begin Large Scale Migrations To Cloud Infrastructure

Over the past few years, organizations have started to move peripheral and edge applications to the cloud. Building on this success, organizations will look deeper at moving entire data centers to the cloud. There are three converging reasons that will make this happen in 2015. First is the software defined data center. The cloud enables everyone to realize a software defined data center. From load balancers to NoSQL databases to full identity management solutions, the cloud provides robust access to everything via an API where you only pay for what you use. Second, customers will benefit from cut-throat pricing competition. As Google and Microsoft engage directly in a pricing and capability war with Amazon, customers will reap the benefits of radically reduced costs and additional feature/functions. Finally, the performance of cloud is now enabling migration of high-performance transaction workloads. Just a few years ago, many cloud providers could only deliver performance in 100 iops range. We are now seeing the ability for server performance in 20,000 iops range. This greatly expands the types of workloads that can be successfully handed in the cloud.