The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.5 percent in 2019 to total $214.3 billion, up from $182.4 billion in 2018, according to Gartner, Inc. As most enterprises and small businesses gravitate to the cloud, the boundaries between the enterprise and the cloud continues to blur. Hybrid and multi-clouds continues to be the strategy with most CIOs as regulatory, data governance, security and performance guarantees, etc continue to slow the migration to an all-cloud strategy (Please see diagram below) . To add to this, public cloud management and configuration continues to get more complex. The growing cloud computing complexity was recently documented by the Wall Street Journal that cites a survey of 46 CIOs by KeyBanc Capital Markets. Companies this year are expected to spend more on IT, particularly cloud and security, as they manage increasingly complex technology environments that include a mix of cloud providers as well as on-premise infrastructure.
