Enterprise IT leaders are facing critical decisions on how to best deploy data center and cloud resources to enable digital transformation. The advantages of cloud models are beyond compelling — they are fundamental to delivering the agility, cost efficiencies and simplified operations necessary for modern IT workloads and applications at scale. It is no surprise that IDC calls “cloud first” the new mantra for enterprise IT. In fact, it predicts that spending on cloud hardware, software and related services will exceed $500 billion by 2020, more than three times what it is today.