In the early days of cloud computing, security concerns prevented many organizations from moving their data, applications, and infrastructure off premises. Today, however, that thinking has come full circle, and most organizations realize that the cloud offers the potential to be a safe place for all three.

Indeed, according to a recent Intel Corp. report, people who trust public cloud now outnumber those who don’t by a ratio of 2-to-1. And more than 62 percent of surveyed IT professionals now store their personal data on the public cloud.1 It won’t surprise you, then, to learn that global cloud traffic is expected to grow nearly fourfold to 14.1 zettabytes by 2020 (up from 3.9 zettabytes in 2015) or that the number of companies relying on traditional (on-premises) IT infrastructure is expected to drop by more than 30 percent over three years (from 77 percent in 2015 to 43 percent in 2018).