The cloud in 2013: Expanding the possibilities

Grazed from SDTimes. Author: Rob Marvin.

The cloud got a lot more crowded in 2013. Cloud providers, users and enterprises have begun to realize the capacity for what’s possible up there, and it’s a lot more than just storage. Cloud computing platforms, PaaSes and IaaSes, mobile and enterprise app migration, virtualization, public versus private clouds, hybrid cloud architectures, cloud security: These are but some of the issues driving competition and expansion as companies big and small vie for cloud supremacy.

In the cloud computing space, Amazon Web Services and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft’s Windows Azure and Team Foundation Server continued to expand their application, testing, and deployment tools and services while increasing scalability and elasticity…

In the meantime, PaaS and hybrid cloud architectures are gaining further momentum and prominence, particularly in the enterprise market. Offerings such as Red Hat’s OpenShift Enterprise, Pivotal One, Rackspace’s hybrid cloud and VMware’s Cloud Foundry are adding new programming languages and making advances in areas including DevOps, mobile application support, middleware, and integration with cloud operating systems, with OpenStack being the open-source leader…

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