
Those enterprises and IT departments that believe they are maintaining a more secure environment on-premises than the public cloud provides are a dying breed, according to the latest round of predictions from Nucleus Research.
In fact, the research firm described the decline in more apocalyptic terms: A great die-off is occurring. “The last believers in the superiority of on-premises security will follow the dinosaurs into the annals of history” next year, its analyst team wrote in its “Top 10 Predictions for 2017” report, released Oct. 19.