Evolved understanding: What 2015 holds for the cloud
December 24, 2014
Grazed from VentureBeat. Author: Jordan Novet.
My main hope for 2015 is that the industry can move on from the “What is the cloud, public clouds are good/bad, private clouds are good/bad” debate and essentially become more nuanced in our understanding. Generally the experience of 2014 is that most people like the model of consumption matching demand, but still have concerns on the nature and types of workloads that we can port.
2015 is the year when we stop talking about the cloud as a “What if?” choice and start talking about the different architectures and their suitability for your workloads. So unlike some commentators who have thrown the collective towel in on cloud computing focusing on purely public cloud over the Internet and calling it a “commodity” or the domain of a few, we are students of history and think we are merely in the Precambrian phase of cloud evolution and look toward the next more impactful stage…
1) The difference in delivery of private cloud and public cloud will disappear.
The desire to have public cloud on-demand services with private cloud security and control will be realized through the integration and automation of network with the traditional trio of CPU, RAM and storage, but not in the way that most predict…
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