Based on experiences with operating environments that feature as-a-service consumption options, many organizations are now looking for ways to apply similar pay-per-use consumption and delivery models for on-premises technology infrastructure and services in their data centers and in remote edge locations.

According to a global survey conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) of 1,257 IT decision makers at organizations using public cloud services, “83% of respondents consider the freedom to deploy workloads wherever they want to be one of their top-five technology initiatives.”