Cloud Computing: Federation Is the Future

Grazed from Midsize Insider. Marissa Trejada.

The future of cloud computing will have much to do with cloud federation, according to a new report by CloudNOW, a non-profit worldwide association that recently announced its top predictions for cloud trends in the next year. The large use of cloud stack, greater control over cloud services, and resources deployed through enterprise class characteristics were also mentioned in an article featured in The Cloud Times as top trends from the report.

Federated clouds will be a big focus in the next year, and as a result, certain applications will become essential to organizational cloud strategy. A federated cloud manages many external and internal cloud computing services to match the needs of a particular business. Putting such a model into practice requires standardization. According to the article, "Providers will begin to differentiate through support, enterprise-class features such as more appropriate SLAs, geolocation services to assist in meeting regulatory and compliance needs, and baked-in social collaboration features."…

Federated Clouds and SMBs

The trend toward federated clouds will open the path for small and midsize businesses to benefit from cloud technologies. Midsize businesses face the same challenges as the enterprise but don’t have the same resources to pursue the solutions they seek. With more awareness and growth in the market when it comes to the cloud, smaller companies will find that the cloud offers solutions that are realistic and effective, including solutions that fall under federated clouds. Federated clouds offer capabilities to meet data privacy mandates, high availability to customers, and they provide geographic reach…

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