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Cloud Computing: Which Direction will the Cloud Move in 2013?
At the end of 2012, Forrester Research’s James Staten summarized Forrester’s vision for how they see cloud computing affecting enterprises in 2013. The top ten trends for the enterprise cloud include:
- Understanding of the cloud will lead to better IT architectural decisions. IT finally has a firm grasp on the scenarios which benefit most by applying cloud technologies.
- Cloud technology will continue to be complemented by mobile. Glenn O’Donnell, Forrester analyst, says that cloud plus mobile is “more than the sum of its parts.”
- Non-critical apps in the cloud will mean that high SLAs become less important. James Staten, Forrester analyst, wrote that “What’s the value of having your sourcing and vendor management team negotiate a high and tight SLA from the cloud vendor when only 10% of the applications deployed there need that level of protection?”
- IT shops will apply cost management when deciding when to apply the cloud. The cloud isn’t always the cheapest option. IT will learn to better apply ROI calculations to see when to use the cloud and when on-premise or hybrid solutions might be better options.
- Organizations will begin to ramp up cloud-based development efforts.
- Disaster and Recovery Backups will increasingly move to the cloud as cloud storage costs continue to decline.
- Diversity in the cloud. The cloud is a delivery mechanism. Cloud solutions are not a commodity. The software and hardware used to provide cloud solutions can vary dramatically across vendors.
- Amazon’s AWS will see tough competition from Google and Microsoft’s Azure.
- IT shops will come to recognize the difference between virtualization and the cloud.
- Developers will realize that many of the tools they’ve previously used remain viable tools for building cloud applications too. What’s different is that cloud applications are more service centric than pre-cloud applications.
