Are Outdated Data Architectures Holding Back the Cloud?
Cloud computing represents a fundamental technical and business trend. But there are barriers in cloud computing that limit broad cloud-based deployment of scaled enterprise-class services. Hybrid clouds will overcome some of these barriers in the short term, but, in the longer term, improvements in cloud architectures and virtualization technologies are required. Among the goals of these improvements must be exploiting commodity technology advances by vertically scaling the data tier to achieve unified cloud systems.
Industry Trends
Cloud computing ‘becoming more popular in Australia’
An increasing number of Australian businesses are turning to cloud computing services and more are expected to do so in the coming months.
"It will be a big year for [the] cloud," explained Andrew Stevens, IBM Australia’s new chief, who also states development and testing procedures will be bolstered, as will production systems, the Australian reports.
The move to cloud computing is partly due to a rise in the number of tablet and mobile devices that employees use, which bring a series of security problems that may be tackled by a remote service.
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Cloud computing growth ‘outstripping rest of IT spending’
Businesses are set to focus on purchasing cloud computing services over the course of 2011.
Formtek blogger Dick Weisinger said this is one of the key findings from a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) report, with spending on cloud applications due to increase by around 30 per cent.
This is nearly five times more than on other IT solutions, with general global spending on services set to go up by approximately six per cent this year.
Cloud computing ‘offers a great step forward for schools’
Schools could benefit from making use of cloud computing solutions, it has been suggested.
Sarah Underwood, magazine and brand editor of digital magazine ICT for Education, explained there are several advantages of using the technology for educational establishments.
"It saves them from downtime, maintenance, upgrades, it has shared costs and they don’t have to run it for themselves," she said.
Ms Underwood added that for cloud computing to be adopted by schools, it needs to be championed by the IT professionals that work for them.