Peering into the 2015 crystal ball – the clouds will reign
January 11, 2015
Grazed from ITWorldCanada. Author: Don Sheppard.
Last year I would have called this my IT predictions for 2015. This year my crystal ball is pretty cloudy (no pun intended). It’s safe to say that Apple Watches and Windows 10 will be delivered in some form. Although cloud computing will certainly continue to make progress towards maturity, 2015 may be the year that the term “cloud computing” is finally retired (or perhaps re-invented with a new meaning).
Let me note that lots of predictions for 2015 are already available. For some reason, 2015 seems to be a magic year. One vision that first appeared in 2011, the Intel Cloud 2015 Vision, has been well publicized. Gartner, Forrester and IDC have published their 2015 predictions. It’s certainly nice that we can make totally new predictions every year!…
Microsoft says we already live in a mobile-first and cloud-first world (has that really happened already?). Clearly, most people would agree that the macro-goals are to make the world safer, easier to live in, more productive to work in, and more inclusive and interactive. There seems to be a reasonable chance that these goals will begin to be realized in 2015…