10 Technology Predictions For The Channel For 2017

You Won't Go Wrong With Cloud

Embrace the cloud and "I think you'll be in good shape," says James L. Phipps Jr., president of BeCloud, a solution provider based in Jackson, Miss.

"This is the year," proclaimed CSC's chief technology officer, Gary Hushon, in a blog post and video. "We've seen a huge number of CIOs say, 'I have an 80/20 plan. I'm committed to [putting] 80 percent of my workloads in the public cloud by 2020,'" he added, And, the major cloud platforms will outpace the rest of the field and "will begin to compete on function and capability against one another," Hushon added.