2014 Cloud Trends Outlook – Future of Cloud Services
March 21, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Asher Baig.
We talk about the “cloud” today just like we used to talk about the “Internet” back in 1996. Now the Internet is an integral part of our lives and we hardly even use the word—we talk about the applications and services it enables, such as web applications and services (we get more of our information from the Internet than anything else), instant messaging and Internet telephony.
Cloud is going through the similar rapid adoption. Cloud adoption is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 40 percent per year. Three years from now we won’t even talk about the “cloud”—we’ll talk about the applications and services it enables, such as Office 365, Google Apps, Salesforce.com, BCDR, mobility and file sync and share…
All businesses increasingly have access to a variety of cloud services that would have been unthinkable even five years ago, and while their tolerance for limited service integration and self-service is pretty high, it is shrinking fast. Businesses are looking for more value in the services they consume and to build a strategic partnership with their service provider…
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