Where do you anticipate the majority of your network infrastructure will reside 5 years from now?

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Under someone's desk10%

In an in-house Data Center40%

In a 3rd party Data Center40%

Private Cloud (e.g. Metal)25%

Public Cloud (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)37%

Hosted/Managed Service Provider10%

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Vice President, Infrastructure Architect in Finance (non-banking)4 months ago

Obviously, this is only referring to data center/core networking...the majority for us is probably in our branches, by physical box count anyways.

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