The pendulum continues to swing and IT workloads are moving to the cloud en masse. The IT model is changing again to the provisioning of information on a just-what’s-needed, just-in-time basis from centralized servers consolidated in the cloud. In the 1980s, IBM mainframes dominated the landscape; in the ’90s, client-server computing came on the scene and data was distributed on personal computers. Now, as mobile devices continue to populate the enterprise at a rapid rate, the IT model has changed again.”]
Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/whitepapers/securing-your-enterprise-in-cloud-w-1689