The term ‘cloud computing’ has been generating plenty of buzz in IT circles for a good few years now, although it has only very recently gone fully mainstream. A whopping 95% of the IT professionals quizzed for RightScale’s 2016 State of the Cloud Survey said that their organization had now adopted the cloud, up from 93% last year.
But what is the cloud, and does such a huge proportion of businesses already embracing it mean that your company should do the same?