27 Jan Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Your Business
No longer just a buzzword in the IT industry, cloud computing has become a common way for companies to save money and scale up and down with ease. The past few years have seen cloud dominance by major providers such as Amazon and Google, but experts point to a future filled with multiple, highly customized clouds.
General Cloud Predictions
Rackspace president Lew Moorman recently shared his future cloud projections in an article on GigaOM. He sees increasingly cloudy skies in the future of enterprise, where Amazon, Google, and other current providers are major players, but where hundreds — and possibly millions — of clouds will be added to the mix.
Everywhere customers go, they will use clouds — sometimes these clouds will be private, stand-alone clouds, and sometimes they will be combinations of public clouds, hybrid-clouds, local clouds, etc. The question of the future won’t be whether to work in a cloud or not, but which cloud will best serve each individual’s and company’s needs.
Endless Use-Cases for Clouds
Moorman views the future as a limitless opportunity for cloud computing to impact businesses of every kind, whether their focus is in IT or not. While acknowledging Amazon’s current cloud dominance, he suggests that Amazon can’t be everything to everyone, and offers a list of use-cases for customized clouds, including:
- A GPU-optimized cloud for graphics work
- A local cloud optimized to render and move large files easily for specific industries
- A cloud to advance society in Third World countries
- Private clouds to run multinational corporation applications in-house
- Healthcare-focused clouds running in each hospital
- Customized clouds to help databases run optimally
- A cloud specifically for the FBI to enhance security
Basically, the future could offer a cloud for any need, with millions of them being created to serve very specific functions.
What Businesses Can Expect in an Increasingly Cloudy Future
While generalized cloud predictions are exciting, the enterprise-level future of cloud computing is especially important to IT managers.
Companies, large and small, will realize even more cost savings, efficiencies, and productivity gains as cloud computing proliferates. You can expect access to more available storage space, increased scalability, a reduction in administration complexity, and greatly diminished costs in the areas of personnel, hardware, power, cooling, and data center upgrades.
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What do you think the future of the cloud will hold? Is your organization prepared to embrace this cloudy future?
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