Facing The Future Now: Time To Be A Leader

Tiffani Bova, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner and a frequent speaker on channel issues, told solution providers at the recent NexGen Cloud conference that there are still a lot of questions about whether and when their clients should migrate to the cloud.

Those questions typically revolve around the topic of whether the cloud is secure enough, and whether customers are actually ready for the migration, Bova said.

"To paraphrase Shakespeare, the question is, 'To cloud or not to cloud,'" she said.

To answer that, solution providers need to be aware of 10 key trends impacting IT, Bova said. Turn the page to see those trends and what they mean to the channel.