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Cloud Computing: Predictions for the Cloud of the Future
There is a growing consensus that cloud computing will become a major component of It strategies in the future. In many cases, it already is a major component, if not a major topic of discussion.
CapGemini: “The Cloud is inevitable.”
Deloitte: “HR in the Cloud: It’s Inevitable.”
Frank Gens, Senior Vice President and Analytst at IDC: “If you are not thinking about and acting on delivering your own offerings through the cloud [within five years], you won’t be in the mainstream anymore. Avoiding the cloud won’t really be an option.”
Tim Doscher, CTO of Enteracloud, a web hosting provider: “The cloud has become an expectation rather than a novelty in IT today, so it’s not surprising that discussions among top IT pros are taking a new turn, focusing on the type of cloud solution that can be of most benefit to a company, the best ways to deploy a cloud strategy and the kinds of value-added services that can be bundled with that cloud offering.”
Narinder Singh, Chief Strategy Officer, Appirio: “Cloud is becoming a critical factor, especially for companies who want to build a post-modern organization that is agile and in touch with customers. Cloud is the key enabler for the biggest trends we’re seeing in IT today – mobile, social media and big data. Companies of all sizes are trying to come up with approaches to all three, and the outcomes may decide the next winners and losers.”
Cloud tops technology trend lists: Both Gartner and Forrester have it their list of top 10 trends for the coming year. Ovum has identified Cloud Computing as one of the three main technologies to affect government in 2012.
What can we expect next for cloud computing? David Linthicum, CTO and Founder of Blue Mountain Labs and frequent contributor at InfoWorld, offers some ideas about where things are going:
- Cloud computing will become the ‘norm’. It will become so commonplace that the word ‘cloud’ is sure to be dropped and assumed when discussing ‘computing’.
- People will better understand the capabilities offered by the cloud and better be able to architect solutions that ‘fit’ the nature of the problem that they are trying to solve.
- ‘Centralized Trust’ or some sort of global authentication that works both in enterprise and on the cloud will become more of a necessity
- Central databases of sharable common data will become commonplace. These databases will undoubtedly grow to enormous size. They’ll be true cloud-based big-data repositories.
- Mobile devices will become smaller, thinner and more powerful and continue to drive the ability to access data from anywhere.
