Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?

Public cloud is expected to grow 23% (overall) in 2021. Is that a fast enough pace of growth, or are there still significant barriers to adoption and faster growth? SHOW: 511 SHOW SPONSORS: Cut your Cloud bills in half with Linode Linux VMs $100 in Free Credits at Linode CloudZero - Cloud Cost Intelligence for Engineering Teams Okta - Safe Identity for customers and workforce Try Okta for FREE (Trial in 10 minutes) CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS" SHOW NOTES: Gartner forecasts 2021 Public Cloud Growth Gartner forecasts 2021 IT Spending (Overall) Global Smartphone Market Share (2021) Apple reports quarterly earnings Amazon/AWS reports quarterly earnings Microsoft reports quarterly earnings Google/Alphabet reports quarterly earnings IS THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING QUICKLY? Q1 2021 vs. Q4 2020: AWS (+30%), Azure (+23%), GCP (+46%) Growing faster than On-Premise, Existing IT (8.4%) WHY ISN"T THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING FASTER? Data Gravity - Moving data into the cloud is expensive and slow Data Centers are long-term depreciation activities (10-20 years) “App Modernization” budgets are small - as a % of IT budgets SaaS is growing at 20% YoY Cloud Costs are expensive and complicated to understand Tech VC is still investing in Tech Startups Security is always a Top 3 priority, and Cloud Security is different A large portion of Enterprise and Gov’t isn’t connected to the Internet - and Mainframes aren’t in the cloud. Retraining Cloud Skills takes time (Gladwell 10,000 hour rule) FEEDBACK? Email: show at thecloudcast dot net Twitter: @thecloudcastnet FEEDBACK? Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot com Bluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.social Twitter/X: @TheEntAIShow Instagram: @TheEntAIShow