2014 Is the Year of Serious Cloud Computing. Here’s Why.
February 17, 2014
Grazed from Fool. Author: Anders Bylund.
"2014 is going to be a defining year for the technology industry," says Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. "This will be the year when cloud architectures go from experimentation to deployment, where big data goes from promise to production, and when we get our first glimpse at how these innovations could potentially change our world." Sounds like a big idea to me. So I hopped on the phone with Whitehurst to discuss this game-changing trend.
"For the last couple of years, we’ve been talking about the cloud," he said. "But realistically, it’s only been about customers starting to toy around with it. You’re finally seeing these things go into production. So now, when I talk to CIOs of large companies, they are seriously talking about using Amazon.com to run applications. Not just running development and testing, but truly moving to production in the cloud."…
Jim told me that Amazon is seeing an influx of "brand new users" to the AWS cloud platform. More than 50% of AWS’ growth is now coming from new accounts rather than expanded use of old ones. In other words, a lot of IT operations have done their homework on cloud computing, and now they’re ready to run production code in specialized cloud environments like AWS or Rackspace cloud platform OpenStack…
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