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Chris Jackson , Chief Product and Technology Officer at Six Degrees , offers his thoughts on cloud strategies and the pressing nature of aligning them with Digital Transformation goals .
Casting a critical eye over cloud adoption
T he rush to the cloud continues at an unrelenting pace . The public cloud segment of the market alone is expected to grow by over 20 % this year to US $ 679 billion , according to Gartner – more than double the growth rate for the IT industry as a whole . To give this success story some wider context , back in 2010 , the entire worldwide cloud services market was making headlines as it headed for a comparatively small US $ 70 billion in value .
Fast forward to today , and , as Gartner puts it , ‘ cloud has become essentially indispensable .’
Yet , the cloud story has become far more nuanced than just huge growth figures , particularly as the market matures and organisations build their understanding of the different models and service providers . For example , Gartner also makes the point that the tables are turning for cloud providers as cloud models no longer drive business outcomes , but rather , business outcomes shape cloud models . This is an important observation – not least because it should encourage IT leaders to seek out an approach to cloud implementation that
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