On average, businesses run 27 percent of their workloads and applications in public clouds and expect this figure to nearly double to 48 percent within the next one to two years, according to a new study. The report from IT marketplace Spiceworks shows 69 percent of businesses believe the flexibility of cloud environments will allow them to more easily adopt emerging technologies such as edge computing, serverless computing, and container technologies. Around a third of businesses say they plan to adopt these technologies by 2020. Adoption rates are even higher in large enterprises -- those with more than 5,000 employees.…
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