Mid-year review: 10 predictions for cloud computing
August 22, 2013
Grazed from GCN. Author: Rutrell Yasin.
As the cloud computing market continues to evolve, the focus is shifting from software as a service to infrastructure as a service (IaaS), offering more options and opportunities for government agencies to manage their own solutions and services, according to a leading industry expert on cloud technology. IaaS is a provision model in which an organization has on-demand access to computing resources including storage, hardware, servers and networking components.
Meanwhile, organizations are still learning how to extend platform as a service – a delivery model for software development – to custom application development, said Kevin Jackson, vice president and general manager of cloud services for NJVC, a provider of information services to civilian and defense agencies…
Earlier this year, Jackson offered a forecast of the 10 most transformational impacts cloud would have in 2013. He recently performed a mid-year review of those predictions, updating how cloud computing will continue to evolve throughout the rest of the year and into 2014…
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