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now actively seeking to accelerate cloud adoption.” In terms of new IT spending in 2019, 80 percent of companies of all sizes plan to increase spending on cloud applications. Cloud infrastruc- ture investments also are coming on strong as an area of investment, said CE. A net 61 percent of companies are increasing spending on cloud in- frastructure. At the other end of the spectrum, private data center spending ap- pears to be much less of a priority, as IT organizations shift some of their workloads off-premises and increase efficiency for what remains in the data center with virtualiza- tion and automation. Only a net 1 percent of companies are increasing spending in this area. “This means that nearly as many companies are decreasing data cen- ter spending as are increasing it,” said Computer Economics. Surveys by 451 Research like- wise shows a shift from on-premises to off-premises venues, and it’s a shift that is occurring rapidly, sug- gests the data. For instance, about 60 percent of 451 Alliance enter- prises currently execute the majority of IT operations in company-owned or leased datacenters. However, that percentage is expected to drop to 42 percent in two years. “Conversely, off-premises hosted/ managed environments are the pri- mary IT environment for 27 percent of the enterprises today, a percentage that is expected to jump to 46 per- cent in two years,” said 451. These environments include cloud services, managed hosting, managed services and IT outsourcing. Smaller companies (<250 em- ployees), show 451 findings, are far more likely to be using third-party cloud providers as their primary IT environment, while larger companies are more likely to have the major- ity of their IT operations in their own datacenters. Only 11 percent of the enterprises surveyed by 451 consider third-party colocation datacenters to be their primary IT environment, a number that is expected to stay about the same during the next two years. “Drilling deeper, the majority (62 percent) of enterprises are pursuing a hybrid IT strategy that combines on- premises and off-premises venues,” 451 researchers concluded. Although there are some dif- ferences based on company size, “nearly all companies are racing headlong down the same path to- ward the cloud,” said CE analysts. “They are simply at different points in the journey.” A rather robust U.S. economy – recent talk of recession notwith- standing – is giving companies the confidence to accelerate their efforts, said Computer Economics, and this acceleration will not only lead to cost savings in the near term but truly transform IT organizations. “Truthfully,” said CE analysts, “we have still just scratched the surface.” o Buyers Side The good news is the majority of your competition is not talking IPv4 either, so if you’re reading this you can take action to differentiate yourself from the crowd of Telecom agents. The demand and popularity of IPv4 space combined with the cost and knowhow to implement IPv6 has created a very active secondary market for IPv4 space. As you may know ARIN and RIPE IPv4 space is exhausted so the only way to get larger and portable IPv4 blocks is via private transfers/sales. That’s where IPv4 Depot comes in! Our IPv4 buying and lease solutions can support your clients’ needs big or small. IPv4 Depot brings years of experience and we are a registered transfer agent with ARIN, RIPE, and APNIC. Our team is active in every IPv4 purchase process; we fully research and vet our suppliers, so you can be confident that your IP space is unspoiled. If you’re not talking about public IPv4 space with your clients, you are leaving EASY money on the table! Contact us at Sales@ipv4depot.com or 1-800-856-5960 New 2019 Vendor 73 September - October, 2019 | Channel Vision