Where is cloud computing heading in 2013?
October 26, 2012
Grazed from CIO. Author: Rebecca Merritt.
Analysts have predicted a trend towards moving IT from on-premise to off-premise, new cloud applications and an increase in spending on cloud services next year. IDC head of research Matthew Oostveen said with cloud computing maturing this year, more organisations will start to move their IT infrastructure from on-premise to off-premise. “2012 was the year that we all got tired of cloud – there’s cloud fatigue. But with Australia being the country that rapidly takes up technology, I think we have reached a period of maturity with the way that we view cloud,” he said.
“What is certain is we are watching a migration taking place where on-premise computing is moving to off-premise computing. It may start incrementally where we see an up take of co-location services, and obviously the co-locations services are being supported by the influx of new data centres in the market place [provided by] NextDC and Macquarie Telecom, which has built new facilities as well.”…
Telsyte senior analyst Rodney Gedda’s predictions are similar to Oostveen’s. “Cloud computing [services] will mature next year and continue to be procured as a replacement to on-premise infrastructure and as an option for service delivery,” Gedda said…
Read more from the source @ http://www.cio.com.au/article/440193/where_cloud_computing_heading_2013_/