11 Critical Cloud Predictions to Consider This 2016

Last year saw a great up and down in the cloud industry. Many enterprises happily adopted the cloud solutions, others were a bit skeptic about drawbacks in the technology. Some of the entrepreneurs were excited about moving their business to cloud and the rest were ok with their traditional heritage IT system. Anyhow the year passed and we expect cloud solution to be mature & better in 2016.

Let’s closely inspect the significant predictions of cloud computing for 2016:

1. About 80% of the production apps will be hosted on cloud.

The tech geeks are very much pressurized with the task to introduce innovations in the present technology at reduced costs. This is because the revenue growth is quite less in many big companies these days. Right now only 25% production apps are hosted on cloud. With the rising demand more production applications are expected to shift to the cloud.

2. Cloud security will soon turn out from barrier to adoption to one of the major advantage for companies.

Many of the companies say that they are not moving their business to cloud because of security concerns. According to them there are so many loopholes in the security system of cloud. A survey done by Harvard Business Review Analytic services that was sponsored by Oracle reports that approximately 62% of people they interviewed said that security issues are the substantial barrier in their path of adoption of cloud at their companies and 50% of them said that data security services in cloud are still not reliable enough.

The cloud storage capacity is expected to expand from US $18.87 billion investment in 2015 to the investment of US $65.41 billion by 2020 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28.2%. Hence, the companies which are staying away from the cloud in the name of security will ultimately be forced to rush to cloud solutions just because of security features of cloud.

3. Container Ecosystem will dominate the cloud market

No doubt Virtual Machines and containers have many similarities between them but some variations do set them apart. Virtual machine cannot function without hypervisors and there is no dependency of container on hypervisor so they are faster. Practically, experts can see the critical emergence of Containers that will enable microservice architectures. The applications in daily use are a series of these microservices and with this the requirement for container to run and maintain microservices also extends. At present, the prevalent container platforms are Kubernetes, Docker and Mesos.

4. Problem of digital disruption faced by companies will make them helpless to throw their traditional IT infrastructure.

The evolution of modern technologies everyday has made it difficult for the companies to work with their traditional IT system. In the past years, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system was working fine but in 2016 this might not prove very effective as latest digital business models demand modern IT infrastructure. Moreover, the planning, configuration, testing and implementation of ERP software is very expensive and many of the ERP deployment projects are very much time taking like it may take more than 2 years to be completed and become fully functional.

5. Leveraging the benefits of cloud IT can pay attention on innovation.

The addition of automation feature in cloud empowered the IT sector to focus on new technologies rather than messing up with the support services. Accompanied with cloud IT personnel need not waste their time on patching databases, batching them or setting disaster recovery techniques. Furthermore, this will not be the headache of IT persons anymore to buy, install and configure hardware systems to store or manage large pool of data. Their cloud vendors will do this for them. Automation facility in the cloud allows the IT organizations to emphasize more on developing creative new tools. This will systematically enhance their customer engagement by working on either harnessing data to improve operations or working with business units. In nutshell, the vendors want their clients to spend time and resources on doing things that have major impact on their business.

6. Complete ROI on cloud investment, all the testing and development works will jump to the cloud solutions.

For testing new software, the companies have to buy the hardware and licensed products and then work upon their installation and configuration. The application of cloud will definitely eliminate your anxiety for installation and set-up work. No need to spend huge amount of money on buying new on-premises software and hardware for testing any fresh development. The cloud will create a favorable environment for the IT teams to easily and quickly develop and test their new product and then if they wish can move back the app to on-premise for production and further changes.

Emerging competition in cloud industry

Rapid innovation and large scope in cloud industry is attracting business persons from around the globe. This is the reason why every year more and more companies are diving into the world of cloud. The addition of new names with cloud solutions is shaking up the ranks of early service providers. Right now, three big names are competing together in the cloud battle Amazon, Microsoft and Google. They are cutting down their products price in order to win the battle.

8. Be ready for full-fledged Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

The perfect combo of private and public cloud is found in the hybrid cloud infrastructure. The customer is getting the benefits of two clouds at the price of one. Cloud veterans are considering hybrid cloud as a foundation stone for upcoming wave of applications in 2016. In a report published by MarketsandMarkets it was written that the Multi-cloud market will jump at a compound annual growth rate of 27% between now and 2019, expected to grow from $25 billion in 2014 to $85 billion in 2019.

9. No need of build-it-yourself Big Data, cloud providers will do it for you

Previously, if you wanted to apply the Big Data technology to your business, then you must have built your own big data environments and clusters. It was really difficult to manage and maintain all the aspects going on Hadoop, Spark and other new technologies in Big Data. Along with these difficulties, the companies needed to hire new skilled employees for doing Big Data jobs in their company. The whole process was quite time consuming and expensive. Cloud solution providers are planning to expand their services to big data as well. In 2016, there will be no need of in-house Big Data technology and experts.

Internet king Google is planning to provide the affordable and reliable Big Data services as the company is very well aware of the Big Data challenges as a result of its search business.

10.Emerging complications for the cloudless infrastructure vendors

The cloud has completely changed the way in which the companies were working earlier. The procedure they were following to consume, purchase and use the computing resources is now outdated.

The companies that shifted some of their business to the cloud and retained some on their on-premises system are facing problems in designing their products to be compatible with both public cloud and data centers. This leads to increased stress on cloud infrastructure. For being on the safe side, the infrastructure vendors will have to move all their businesses on cloud as the sharing policy is less likely to give positive results.

11.Huge requirement of self-service apps powered by analytics tools.

Gone are the days when employees were dependent on IT for simple tasks like periodic reports or analysis reports. These days, all they want is to have their own analysis of opportunities and challenges.

According to a survey conducted by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) on visual analytics best practices, about 46% of respondents said that they are very much dependent on IT for analytics work, and only 37% told they would be entirely as dependent in coming 2 years.

Cloud based self-service tools have made it possible by combining digital marketing, procurement and collaboration. The new ambitious IT teams will support this self-service independence in 2016.

Let’s closely inspect the significant predictions of cloud computing for 2016:

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Cloud based self-service tools have made it possible by combining digital marketing, procurement and collaboration. The new ambitious IT teams will support this self-service independence in 2016.