The future of cloud computing: 9 major trends of 2012
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At the moment, cloud technologies look ambiguous: they bring convenience to companies, but they force you to take certain risks. In this article, we present to you the results of a survey of 39 companies one way or another connected with cloud technologies. This data should shed light on the direction in which the clouds will evolve in the near future.
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Our main occupation here, at ZDNet , is to “pry from the corner,” to keep abreast of the technology industry in order to understand what awaits it further.
Venture capitalists are no less interested in predicting the "technological future", because for them the price of one unsuccessful investment is measured in millions of dollars.
North Bridge Venture Partners recently published a study focusing on the future of cloud computing. Representatives of the company surveyed 785 people in 39 major technology enterprises, including Akamai, AWS, Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP and VMware, to understand how their leadership sees the future of cloud computing.
Since North Bridge is a company that is ready to support what it believes in with serious monetary investments, the details of their research really matter. Below are its main results:
1. Some consider the "clouds" perfect. Half of the respondents are convinced that cloud solutions are quite viable as a tool for implementing the most important business processes.
2. Scalability is a major success factor. Fifty-seven percent of companies said that this was the main reason why they switched to using “clouds” (second place is acceleration of business processes).
3. Security remains the main obstacle. It is possible that the “clouds” are gaining momentum, but the security problem still remains unsolved: 55% of respondents noted it as a factor hindering the widespread adoption of cloud technologies (the three leaders close the observance of established standards and the vendors' closure).
4. Companies are willing to pay for SaaS. As many as 82 percent of respondents said they use software-as-a-service today. Another six percent are going to introduce SaaS in the next five years.
5. PaaS and Iaas are not far behind. Platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service also show widespread interest: forty percent of respondents use PaaS today, and 72 percent are going to start using it in the next 5 years. The same figures for IaaS are 51% and 66%, respectively.
6. Efficiency - the name of the game. The most important and resource-intensive processes were backup and archiving (43 percent), uninterrupted operation (25 percent), collaboration tools (22 percent) processing large amounts of information (19 percent).
7. Savings are noticeable. Fifty-three percent of those polled said that the cloud leads to lower total cost of ownership or TCO, and a less complex IT process.
8. Public or private "clouds"? In fact, and those and others. Forty percent of respondents use public “clouds”, 36 percent follow a hybrid approach, and 52 percent are going to use a hybrid approach in the next 5 years.
9. Information in large volumes is an elephant in a china shop. Eighty percent of respondents believe that the storage of information should completely move into the sphere of cloud computing. Analysts believe also.
Michael Skok, a spokesman for North Bridge, said: "We, as weather forecasters, predict that precipitation will soon fall out of the cloudy sky, which will finally reveal the key trends."
Commentary by Askar Rakhimberdiev, founder and developer of the “My Warehouse” service , CloudsNN-2012 expert:
As a comment, I can say that our small business rarely chooses SaaS for reasons of scalability or cost reduction.
The main reasons are the unique capabilities of the clouds (for example, collaboration from different offices) and, most importantly, the fact that Internet services are often simpler and clearer than their traditional counterparts.
How would you comment on the results of a survey conducted by North Bridge?
At the moment, cloud technologies look ambiguous: they bring convenience to companies, but they force you to take certain risks. In this article, we present to you the results of a survey of 39 companies one way or another connected with cloud technologies. This data should shed light on the direction in which the clouds will evolve in the near future.
')
Our main occupation here, at ZDNet , is to “pry from the corner,” to keep abreast of the technology industry in order to understand what awaits it further.
Venture capitalists are no less interested in predicting the "technological future", because for them the price of one unsuccessful investment is measured in millions of dollars.
North Bridge Venture Partners recently published a study focusing on the future of cloud computing. Representatives of the company surveyed 785 people in 39 major technology enterprises, including Akamai, AWS, Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP and VMware, to understand how their leadership sees the future of cloud computing.
Since North Bridge is a company that is ready to support what it believes in with serious monetary investments, the details of their research really matter. Below are its main results:
1. Some consider the "clouds" perfect. Half of the respondents are convinced that cloud solutions are quite viable as a tool for implementing the most important business processes.
2. Scalability is a major success factor. Fifty-seven percent of companies said that this was the main reason why they switched to using “clouds” (second place is acceleration of business processes).
3. Security remains the main obstacle. It is possible that the “clouds” are gaining momentum, but the security problem still remains unsolved: 55% of respondents noted it as a factor hindering the widespread adoption of cloud technologies (the three leaders close the observance of established standards and the vendors' closure).
4. Companies are willing to pay for SaaS. As many as 82 percent of respondents said they use software-as-a-service today. Another six percent are going to introduce SaaS in the next five years.
5. PaaS and Iaas are not far behind. Platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service also show widespread interest: forty percent of respondents use PaaS today, and 72 percent are going to start using it in the next 5 years. The same figures for IaaS are 51% and 66%, respectively.
6. Efficiency - the name of the game. The most important and resource-intensive processes were backup and archiving (43 percent), uninterrupted operation (25 percent), collaboration tools (22 percent) processing large amounts of information (19 percent).
7. Savings are noticeable. Fifty-three percent of those polled said that the cloud leads to lower total cost of ownership or TCO, and a less complex IT process.
8. Public or private "clouds"? In fact, and those and others. Forty percent of respondents use public “clouds”, 36 percent follow a hybrid approach, and 52 percent are going to use a hybrid approach in the next 5 years.
9. Information in large volumes is an elephant in a china shop. Eighty percent of respondents believe that the storage of information should completely move into the sphere of cloud computing. Analysts believe also.
Michael Skok, a spokesman for North Bridge, said: "We, as weather forecasters, predict that precipitation will soon fall out of the cloudy sky, which will finally reveal the key trends."
Commentary by Askar Rakhimberdiev, founder and developer of the “My Warehouse” service , CloudsNN-2012 expert:
As a comment, I can say that our small business rarely chooses SaaS for reasons of scalability or cost reduction. The main reasons are the unique capabilities of the clouds (for example, collaboration from different offices) and, most importantly, the fact that Internet services are often simpler and clearer than their traditional counterparts.
How would you comment on the results of a survey conducted by North Bridge?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/148156/
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