2014 Cloud Mainstream

Hybrid Cloud and IT as Service Broker

What Gartner Predicted

Organizations would combine personal clouds, external cloud services, and traditional IT into hybrid cloud environments, with IT departments becoming service brokers.

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Prediction Accuracy
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Hybrid cloud became the dominant enterprise strategy, but IT departments became infrastructure-as-code practitioners, not the 'service brokers' Gartner described. Half the prediction landed.