The cloud market in 2012: Through the eyes of experts
23.05.12
Cloud technology will continue to evolve and expand. One of the biggest advances will be the
availability of software that allows companies to fully manage their own private and public clouds.
Similar tools used by Amazon EC2 will be available to the general market to install and use.
One of the biggest advantages of cloud technologies is the ability to consolidate entire data
centers while still delivering workloads to users. Bring
your own device (BYOD) will also see a bigger push in 2012, as many organizations see the clear
benefits in cost savings and device management of allowing end users to bring their own devices
into the enterprise.
IT managers and administrators will need to update their skill sets to fully understand how data
is traveling within the cloud. IT staffs will need to apply WAN
optimization methods and other efficiency techniques to achieve maximum throughput and the best
performance for the end user. And even though cloud computing shares characteristics with existing
environments, it has very stark differences. Cloud managers will need to have a better grasp of
distributed computing, how data lives in the cloud and how to best use cloud technologies so they
benefit the organization.
Source: SearchCloudComputing.com