Key Cloud Computing Trends In Each Of The Five Continents

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: John Omwamba.

Going by recent surveys in all the five continents, it is telling that bigger things are yet to come in cloud computing. While Europeans are taking an exacting, albeit generic approach to changes visiting upon the scene, the Americans are considering the capital side of the equation. While Asians are gnawing at the meat pie of reducing infrastructural expenditure, Africans are embracing startups and the state machineries are going into the sector with aplomb. The Australasia region, on the other hand, has posted one of the biggest stories in recent cloud times: the preference for supplier-driven working models with servers operating from the home country.

The following is a bipartisan approach to each of the above summaries for every continent. It will highlight the generic and specific cloud computing trends that are already or may one day give way to new business divides…

Europe

The continent is experiencing some of the biggest advances in cloud computing. Some analysts are even attributing the term as synonymous with the European continent. The specific examples include the mushrooming of various startups that are trying to make the capitals of the Eurozone a global village. Instead of entertaining thoughts of waiting for a plane to go from Berlin to Rome, for instance, one can communicate with the other business people in the hubs of the two cities. It is also plain that guides will no longer be necessary when one finds oneself alone in a foreign city: the tech hubs that organize meetings will help the attendants find hotels and other features unique to the city.

Generally, Europe has defined these trends for the year:

1. Embracing cloud computing by Information Technology staff as an inevitable profession.
2. Prominence of the independent cloud as the current model of preference.
3. The search for a permanent, unified model that combines independent, web-based and hybrid clouds is at peak point now.

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