Do you think the majority of enterprise companies will move to the cloud in the next 5 years?

Data Center and Cloud InfrastructureCloud

Yes, they'll want to be digital.84%

No, they will continue to utilize mainframes.15%

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IT Manager in Constructiona year ago

Definitely

Strategic Banking IT advisor in Banking2 years ago

I think both would be possible: utilize a mainframe for backend because of complex legacy systems and use the cloud for web applications (end-users facing).

Having said that, many organizations will replace their legacy systems with new one that runs on the cloud.

Director in Manufacturing4 years ago

The answer is yes but not for the stated reason. We had been moving to the cloud for years but reasons were more around....
Retirement of technical debt
Reduce Data center footprint
Shift to pay as you use for more applications
Etc etc....

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Director of Information Security in Energy and Utilities4 years ago

It's an interesting question and Arthur Kruk is correct that it's not very well written in second response. Businesses that run mainframes do so for a good reason, those things just run and run very well without any issues. It's far cheaper to run those systems in on-premise infrastructure than moving them to public cloud of sorts. Security is another anchor that I think will keep those things on premise for a long time because it's simply easier to secure those systems on premise vs. dealing with cloud configuration/security challenges.

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Senior Enterprise Architect, Application Consulting in Healthcare and Biotech4 years ago

There are issues with the wording of the answer choices for this question.

The mainframe was digital before there was a cloud.

Moving some workloads to the cloud, and retaining some workloads on the mainframe are valid strategies that are not mutually exclusive.

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