
Cloud technologies help organizations transform their businesses, and there is no doubt that cloud adoption is growing quickly. IDC forecasts that within the next three years, well over two-thirds of all IT infrastructure and software will be consumed as cloud services. In IDC's 2016 CloudView Survey of over 11,000 customers around the world, 70% of CIOs identified themselves as having a "cloud first"IT strategy either today or for the future. Over the next several years, even more organizations will move steadily closer to "cloud only" strategies.