Cloud Computing Predictions

Recently i have tried to write an article on Cloud Computing while i was more or less learning about it. Article did turn out good like a very good beginners guide. Below is a section of the article as to what i predict to happen w.r.t Cloud Computing in 2011.

View my article on Cloud at http://bit.ly/hXRkVG and "10 Steps to move to cloud" at http://bit.ly/e900YO

Predictions on Cloud Computing for 2011

• Cost savings will take an upper hand over Security Concerns thereby preferring public cloud over private cloud. I also would like to back up this prediction by the fact that "Security Concerns" always remained as "Concerns" however in practice so far there had been minimal or dare i say no reported case of breach of security (i mean critical breaches). It will be impossible for any CTO to ignore the weight of advantages of public cloud compared to private. In other words "Security" will remain a concern but no longer a barrier in cloud computing.
• Networking bandwidth to become the bigger concern and hence extra focus on distributed data centres and disaster recovery by established cloud vendors like google, amazon, salesforce, microsoft. Additional data centers will bring the cloud near to the organizations and also help distributed bandwidth. You ll probably see more screams on outages.
• A good time will be spent by industry in understanding their infrastructure, legacy systems, application base and how they transform them to cloud with robust risk management. So far everybody has been happy talking about cloud computing but guess 2011 is going to see getting real and equipping themselves to changing world. CEO's/CTO's will urge what it means to the organizations in terms of dollars realistically.
• 2011 will be an year of major successes, failures, learnings in cloud computing world for many organizations. This might be an year where industry realizes the next generation processes within IT Security, Service Management, Delivery, Budgeting and enable much more matured cloud computing by end of the year.
• "InterCloud" will still most likely be a concept and will atleast take a year or more to become a reality in true sense

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