In on-premises data centers, organizations are responsible for everything from making sure no one steals the server or hard drive to making sure the operating system and routers are set up properly and data protection security measures are in place.
The popularity of cloud continues to grow. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic there has been an increase in public cloud sales with numbers expected to grow by 13.2% while IT infrastructure sales are expected to drop by up to 16.4%. The vast majority of enterprises now run a mix of on-premises and cloud-based environments known as Hybrid IT, but it is expected that 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020.