Cloud’s Outlook For 2020

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Michael Brenner.

Jack Clark, a reporter for ZDNet, recently pulled together opinions from industry experts to create a vision of cloud computing in 2020 in an article, entitled “Cloud Computing: 10 Ways It Will Change by 2020.”

So what will cloud computing look like eight or ten years down the road? What will influence the evolutionary path it takes? And how important will it be to an enterprise computing infrastructure? According to the article, Forrester Research states the global cloud computing market will grow from $35 billion in 2011 to $150 billion in 2020 and it will be a key part of IT infrastructures. Driven by data such as that, here is what the experts says is coming in 2020 for cloud computing…

Software – agnostic, larger, and more social. The first three ways cloud computing is changing in the future relate to software. Firstly, software – in particular front-end applications or ones built on top of a platform-as-a-service – will become truly hardware agnostic and reside in a “highly abstracted space” that helps render computing invisible.

In point #2, the industry pundits discuss how software applications will become larger because of the availability of more hardware in the cloud. This will drive a need for modular applications that can be modified independently of the program itself…

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