infrastructure is primarily deployed on premises, but that number will drop to a mere 28% within three years, leaving a whopping 72% of respondents predominantly using public cloud services. By 2025, 99% of all files will be stored in cloud environments. Employees will create, collaborate on and store files from any device, without knowing if the files are stored locally or in the cloud. ‘IDC Lowers Forecast for Worldwide IT Spending to a Decline of 5.1% in 2020, but Cloud Spending Remains Relatively Resilient’. May 2020 ‘Why cloud block storage deployments are on the rise’. Sept 2019 ‘How to Escape Network and Local File Storage’ 7 January 2020 "Where there is growth, most of it is in the cloud". "Overall software spending is now expected to decline. On the other hand, the amount of data that companies must store and manage is not going anywhere. Increasingly, even more of that data will be stored, managed, and increasingly also analysed in the cloud."