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Contributed by James Strayer, vice president of product management, Racemi

2016 the Year of All-in Cloud Computing

2016 will be the year of Enterprise IaaS adoption. The discussion is no longer "if" - it is "what, when, and how?" which, of course, is great news for a company like Racemi as suppliers of automation software for server migrations.

Enterprises have been testing the waters over the last couple of years to varying degrees - some all-in, some hardly-in, and mostly in between. Now, the majority of our customers have confirmed that IaaS has matured to the point where it is ready for widespread consumption.

We anticipate hundreds of thousands of enterprise applications (in virtually every category) migrated to IaaS next year, with many adopting a hybrid cloud strategy that incorporates multiple cloud vendors. These companies have chosen to diversify their cloud strategy and not rely on a single vendor for compute and storage services, which should also dovetail nicely with their Disaster Recovery planning as well. We expect migration technology to continue to be a key component of these enterprise companies' cloud strategies as they execute more broadly in the transition to cloud computing.

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About the Author

James Strayer has more than 15 years of product management and marketing experience in technology, including five years at Racemi. Prior to that, he led product management at Fortune 500 company, Symantec, and before that at Altiris (acquired by Symantec). James Strayer graduated from Utah Valley University with a degree in Life Sciences.