Three emerging cloud computing trends for 2014

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: David Linthicum.

This is the time of year that when technology publications get contacted by any number of PR firms, hoping they will listen to their pitches, and perhaps publish their cloud technology client’s cloud computing predictions for 2014.  If they’re lucky, whatever they are selling continues to grow in the New Year.

I don’t really get into predictions as much as I look at emerging patterns or trends, which will be relevant to those who are currently evaluating and selecting cloud computing technology.  In other words, you need to understand what to look out for in the near future, as well as how to dial that into your enterprise cloud computing strategy.  Three emerging cloud computing trends that will be more relevant by the end of the year are actually rather easy to spot:…

• PaaS and application migration

• Cloud data integration, yes again

• Cloud management and governance

Of these emerging trends, PaaS and application migration will receive the most prominent focus in 2014, considering the number of applications that enterprises are preparing to move to cloud-based platforms.  The issues that enterprises have right now are lack of best practices, immaturity of PaaS platforms, and, in some cases, no ROI to validate the migrations….

Read more from the source @ http://research.gigaom.com/2013/11/three-emerging-cloud-computing-trends-for-2014/