What will ‘cloud computing’ mean in 10 years?

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

It’s 2023, and you’re going to lunch with a former colleague in your new flying car. The two of you wonder, "Whatever happened to cloud computing?" As a buzzword, like buzzwords of the past, cloud computing will eventually be baked into all our technology and barely discussed as a concept. Cloud computing in 10 years will have gone off in various directions, all systemic to how we handle enterprise computing in the future. Here are just two paths:

In 10 years, pervasive cloud services will be the standard for assembling business solutions. We will leverage core services that either exist within our enterprise or from public cloud providers to assemble and reassemble business solutions. These services will be utility-based, perhaps primitive storage and compute or security and governance or more sophisticated business uses, such as market forecasting services…

While services certainly reside in the clouds today, in 10 years, they should be built around the same set of standards and thus be more compatible, no matter which public provider you leverage. Moreover, they should be dynamically discoverable and self-healing, and they may exist as private services you own and maintain. Alternatively, they could be public services you leverage from any public cloud provider…

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