Where is cloud computing heading in 2014?

Grazed from CIO.  Author: Rebecca Merret.

Private and hybrid cloud models, IT departments acting as cloud brokers, more competition among providers and a maturity in services is where ‘as-a-service’ computing is heading in 2014, say analysts.  Michael Warrilow, research director at Gartner, says more enterprises will look to use public and hybrid cloud models next year as they realise “it’s impossible to private cloud everything”.

“We will see ever-more public cloud adoption … public [cloud] is probably going to be 70 to 80 per cent of cloud workloads,” he says.  “It is hard work to private cloud everything. You have got to be like a cloud provider but you have also got to be like traditional IT as well. So you have got to do security, service delivery, etc. People will be too ambitious. We think they should only target private cloud for the most important and relevant workloads.”…

Telsyte analyst Rodney Gedda also says the hybrid model will take off next year as it alleviates the need for IT groups to manage their company’s entire IT infrastructure…

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