Forrester – Cloud Predictions for 2013
December 9, 2012
Now that we’re nearing the end of the year, there is one key takeaway from the cloud computing industry: enterprise use has finally arrived. The use of Cloud Computing is no longer hidden from plain sight and IT departments are now very upfront about their company use, resulting in legitimate cloud budgeting taking place. In fact, the latest Forrsights Surveys state that half of all enterprises in North America and Europe are planning to create budgets for cloud related investments in 2013.
This means that cloud usage will finally get real in 2013. It marks the end for all the speculation and the cloudwashing, as corporations and organizations start getting down to the real business of incorporating cloud technology into their formal IT portfolios. Some of the most important predictions about cloud technology in the coming year include:…
We’ll No Longer Believe That “Everything is Going Cloud.”
We have reached the point where we already understand the difference between cloud platforms and conventional virtual infrastructures, therefore we’ll have a much more realistic idea on what fits in the cloud and what doesn’t.
Cloud and Mobile Technology Will Merge
Nowadays, there’s very little value in a mobile app that can’t call out through the Internet to back-end services. These backend services will live in the Cloud, since putting them in your datacenter will live your infrastructure open to an unpredictable flood of traffic…
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