The Cloud in 2015: 4 things you need to prepare for

January 26, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Chris Patterson.

Even with ‘The Internet of Things’ slated to be the buzzword of 2015, cloud computing will continue to remain firmly in the minds of IT departments. Therefore, I thought I thought I’d share my four big cloud trends to expect this year.

1. Cloud Computing Will Become More Mainstream

As cloud becomes more mainstream, the question among progressive IT shops when rolling out new applications will shift from “why cloud?” to “why not cloud?” This is bolstered by the increasing prevalence of public-private compute infrastructures that allow simple placement of workloads where they make the most business sense…

In a recent survey of IT professionals, conducted by NaviSite, 89 per cent of respondents said that deploying some form of private cloud or hybrid infrastructure is a priority within the next 12 months. Although the public cloud also continues to grow at a ferocious rate (with 38 per cent of respondents listing such a deployment as a priority within the next 12 months) hybrid infrastructures are becoming more popular. Hybrid infrastructures allow organisations to benefit from the flexibility and scalability of the public cloud, whilst keeping workloads and data that are either too sensitive, or still not suited to virtualised platforms, to remain on-site…

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