Well after a fun packed Christmas holiday, I thought I should emerge from hibernation and think about what 2011 holds for the ever evolving cloud strategies. There are many more than those highlighted below, but those below definitely come with some kudos.
dataplex systems:
- Need for better access control and identity management
- Ongoing Compliance
- Multiple Cloud Tenants will compound and raise issues
- Be some firm standards and certifications for cloud security.
Gartner:
- By 2015, tools and automation will eliminate 25 per cent of labour hours associated with IT services.
- By 2015, 20 per cent of non-IT Global 500 companies will be cloud service providers.
- By 2014, 90 per cent of organisations will support corporate applications on personal devices.
- By 2013, 80 per cent of businesses will support a workforce using tablets.
Ovum:
- Mobility – In IT management, the mobility challenge in 2011 will be to embrace the new technology while developing a strategy that maintains a balance between user preference and productivity and corporate security and compliance.
- Data centre transformation – The role of the data centre is witnessing a dramatic shift as the cloud computing era heralds a new dawn in the delivery of IT services in 2011.
- Cloud services – Cloud computing will continue to grow steadily in 2011.
CCS Insight:
- Operators will focus on speed and quality of service rather than number of gigabytes when marketing mobile data.
- Operators will pay subsidies based on the data efficiency of a software platform, favouring BlackBerry over iOS and Android.
Nucleus Research:
- Politicians are out of touch with the realities of IT. The cloud enables white-collar workers to work anywhere, allowing smart companies to seek locales with low taxes and overhead.
- The cloud changes everything – still. Companies large and small are taking advantage of the economic and environmental advantages of developing and computing in the cloud.
HfS:
- Integrated offerings from service providers with broad capability gain market share. Distinction between BPO and ITO blurs
- Many CIOs will thrive or fail because of Cloud demand from their business function leaders
Infotrends:
- Cloud printing (or a similar term) to become the next big thing in the printing industry – we’re going to start moving beyond MPS and the hubbub around MPS – companies will begin to realise that the underlying theme is the mobility of the knowledge worker and that business processes, of which the majority still involve paper somewhere along the line, will need to adapt, evolve and maybe be totally reinvented for the next computing age
Forrester:
- You will build a private cloud, and it will fail. And this is a good thing.
- Hosted private clouds will outnumber internal clouds 3:1. The top reason empowered employees go to public cloud services is speed. They can gain access to these services in minutes. Private clouds must meet this demand and not once, but consistently.
- Community clouds will arrive, thank to compliance.
- Cloud economics gets switched on. Being cheap is good.
- Cloud standards still won’t be here — get over it.
- Cloud security will be proven but not by the providers alone. Because cloud security isn’t their responsibility —it’s shared.