According to respondents, 16 percent of workloads will be deployed on-premises in 2021, down from 39 percent in 2019. Both public cloud and private cloud will take up the largest share of deployments according to respondents' estimates.
IT workload distribution worldwide in 2019 and 2021, by cloud type
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