Why Cloud 2.0 will be everything-as-a-service

Grazed from CloudComputingIntelligence. Author: David Grimes.

The cloud computing market has matured significantly in the past two to three years, becoming almost synonymous with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). But if the rapid adoption of IaaS was Cloud 1.0, what does the future hold for cloud beyond IaaS and what services will we see being enabled by cloud in the future?

Primarily cloud adoption was driven by cost. Not always in the sense that switching to cloud would reduce spend immediately, but the benefits of moving from a CAPEX to OPEX model was, and continues to be, a compelling proposition to businesses. Other factors have also helped to shape today’s cloud industry. These include the maturation of virtualisation technologies, the ever increasing capabilities of the underlying hardware platforms, and the expertise which service providers have developed in delivering robust, secure solutions using a shared infrastructure model…

It is this attraction to ‘as-a-service’ delivery that will continue to fuel the next evolution in cloud services, or Cloud 2.0. Over the coming years we will see many existing offerings adapting to an as-a-service model enabling greater levels of flexibility and operational efficiency…

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