Three Emerging Cloud Trends: Offshoring, Networking, Big Data
August 14, 2013
Grazed from Datamation. Author: Jeff Vance.
The cloud may not have quite reached maturity yet, but it’s getting there. Plenty of businesses rely on the cloud for mission-critical applications, and cloud adoption is steady enough in the U.S. that offshore public cloud providers fear they’ll never catch up to Amazon, Google, Rackspace and other cloud providers in the U.S.
From outsourcing to automation
"The initial resistance to public cloud has begun to subside and customers are beginning to realize its efficiencies as the solutions mature," said Ian Marriott, research vice president at Gartner. According to Gartner, spending on public cloud services is expected to grow 18 percent in 2013 to $131 billion. By 2015, Gartner believes the public cloud services market will exceed $180 billion…
Remember all of those jobs that were outsourced a few years back? Well, many of those jobs may be displaced again, this time by cloud services. In the near term, Gartner believes that cloud services will "complement," rather than displace, offshore IT jobs, but I would argue that most jobs ripe for offshoring are also at risk of being automated out of existence…
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