Looking Back – Cloud Computing Trends Of 2012

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Rick Blaisdell.

This year, the winds of change have blown the cloud to a higher level. Studies predict that cloud computing will be on the rise for some a long period of time and that it will be a major source of revenue and employment globally by 2015. Industry experts also say that ultimately everything will be in the cloud, including migrating all physical hardware, software, platforms, services and processing.

There is no question that cloud computing evolved enormously this year. In 2012, we’ve seen:…

• Increased confidence in cloud for mission-critical applications, according to the second annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey;
• Cloud-based business process management (BPM) on the rise. About 40% of organizations with BPM initiatives use cloud computing to support at least 10% of the processes involved in those efforts, according to a recent research by Gartner Inc.
• Public cloud services market growing faster than expected. IT researcher Gartner reported in September that the public cloud services market is now forecast to grow 19.6 percent in 2012 to total $109 billion worldwide…

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