Enterprise IT executives expect 60 per cent of workloads to run in the cloud by 2018, as organisations reassess business models amidst accelerating adoption levels.

Findings from 451 Research indicates that 41 per cent of all enterprise workloads are currently running in some type of public or private cloud, with enterprises most likely to use on-premises private cloud and software as a service (SaaS), each accounting for 14 per cent of all applications.

According to the analyst firm, usage of on-premises private cloud will remain flat while SaaS is expected to grow sharply to nearly one-quarter (23 per cent) of all enterprise workloads by mid-2018.

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