{"id":3004,"date":"2012-05-30T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2012-05-30T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T15:00:08","slug":"cloud-computing-five-trends-for-the-cloud-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-five-trends-for-the-cloud-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Five Trends For the Cloud in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"David Cearley bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davidcearley\" target=\"_blank\">David Cearley<\/a>, vice president and Gartner fellow <a title=\"Gartner on Cloud computing as a major force\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/it\/page.jsp?id=1971515\" target=\"_blank\">said <\/a>that\u00a0&#8220;Cloud computing is a major technology trends that has permeated the market over the last two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gartner identifies the following five trends now occurring in the cloud computing market:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cloud customers are creating more consistent strategies for evaluating and comparing Cloud vendors<\/li>\n<li>In the short term, strategies are being devised that create hybrid combinations of both cloud capabilities and existing on-premise solutions<\/li>\n<li>Cloud brokers are appearing and will work to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing<\/li>\n<li>Increasingly cloud application performance and quality \u00a0will improve as vendors design software\u00a0from scratch specifically for the cloud<\/li>\n<li>Cloud computing data center best practices and efficiencies will trickle over and \u00a0influence the design and operation of corporate data centers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fcloud-computing-five-trends-for-the-cloud-in-2012%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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