Cloud Computing: Four Predictions For The Year Ahead
December 18, 2012
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Antonio Piraino.
The cloud has become a well-used buzzword, but for good reason. Cloud computing strategies have provided organizations with many benefits in 2012, especially as budgets, products and applications were set aside for both public and private cloud investments.
However, despite the fact that companies have begun to embrace the cloud and move toward serious implementations, we are in the midst of a rapidly changing market. Below are a few predictions on the cloud computing front for the year 2013:…
The cloud wars are (still) rumbling, and they’re getting louder.
Today, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Red Hat offer their own cloud Infrastructure as a Service models. Additionally, there is a growing list of Platform as a Service providers (Google, Facebook, etc.), as well as hosting providers, hedging to be the future default cloud platform. Overall, we are seeing more and more evidence from large enterprises that their choices are becoming less based on the underlying network, storage or service infrastructure, and more to do with the peripherals and overlay services onto that IT infrastructure. The head to head scrimmaging between these cloud giants is just gathering steam, and the real battle will unfold in 2013…
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