2013 Enterprise Cloud Computing Trend Forecast

Propaganda campaign from the early to now officially entered the market, cloud computing has entered a stage of practice. On-demand computing services provided by cloud computing are more popular with small and medium-sized businesses and start-ups in the past, but from 2013 onwards, the cloud computing audience began to shift more and more to large enterprises. In 2013, IT giants will improve enterprise-class cloud computing services through acquisitions of startups to help large enterprises migrate business processes and workloads to the cloud, and more applications will emerge from the enterprise-class IaaS platform. Cloud model will further detonate enterprise-class cloud computing market. Here's GigaOM's five major forecasts for the 2013 enterprise cloud computing market:

Public cloud will be able to provide enterprise-class applications


In fact, Fortune 1000 companies are more or less using Amazon's public cloud for testing or development, some of which run the real application above, you know, NASDAQ is Amazon AWS public cloud customers. However, regulated industries such as finance and healthcare still will not put any key applications or data in the public cloud. Companies like Diebold, as well as large banks, do not even allow employees to use AWS for development work, let alone deploy the public cloud.

This is a big hurdle for cloud computing businesses like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Last year AWS signed a partnership agreement with Eucalyptus to enable Eucalyptus private cloud customers to interoperate with the AWS public cloud in a hybrid cloud model. Cloud computing startups such as CloudVelocity are also rolling out cloud workloads in the enterprise private cloud to AWS without sacrificing security. In 2013, hybrid cloud computing technologies like CloudVelocity that help businesses extend their applications from the data center to the public cloud will continue to emerge.

In the meantime, enterprise software giants VMware and Microsoft will also prove in 2013 that their cloud computing technology will meet the needs of enterprise-class applications.

②compute cloud is HP's life-saving straw or "the last straw"?


Over the past few years, traditional hardware vendors such as Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM have all sought to establish new competitive advantages in cloud computing as cloud computing is making the hardware brand in the data center irrelevant.

Although Meg Whitman, HP chief executive, warned investors that HP would take years to get out of the doldrums, customer and investor patience did not seem that long, and the acquisition of Autonomy was intended to augment the power of big data and cloud computing, end. HP is deadly in 2013 and HP introduced the Compute Cloud this year, based on OpenStack, and in 2013 HP's largest customers will recognize HP's cloud computing services cloud computing business will be very decent To a large extent determine the success or failure of HP's cloud computing strategy.

③ OpenStack need to prove himself


While Rackspace has handed over control to its members and no longer plays a role as "parent" of OpenStack, OpenStack also needs to prove itself competing with Amazon AWS in the public cloud and open source cloud computing platforms like CloudStack, Eucalyptus and OpenNebula. 2012 is an important year for OpenStack. Hewlett-Packard, Internap, Red Hat and Rackspace have all launched OpenStack-based cloud computing services. In 2013, more companies will develop services around OpenStack.

While many in the industry believe that OpenStack is a latecomer to the cloud computing feat, there are many pitfalls; but cloud computing is still in the early stages of development, anything can happen and there's naturally time to OpenStack to become More competitive.

④ Infrastructure beyond the data center wall


As early as 2008, Google put forward the concept of "data center is the computer", but with Google released the world's largest single database - Spanner data center, Google can synchronize the contents of five data centers, which means that the web services infrastructure design In a whole new era, the data center walls are no longer the boundaries of the infrastructure. The "data center" in today's "data center is the computer" needs to be replaced by "multiple data centers and the networks that connect them." Similar ideas from Google include Netflix, an online video service that heavily uses Amazon's cloud to maximize its network via CDN. Facebook is also doing a similar job, Facebook rent optical fiber from the operator, the infrastructure as far as the edge of the network. More and more data center operators will build large-scale distributed networks synchronized by multiple data centers.

⑤ "Software Definition" will not be easy

Software Defined Networking is one of the hottest IT buzzwords in 2012, along with software-defined storage and software-defined data centers. The core idea of ​​these new technology concepts is basically the same, that is, network, storage and data centers can also be as server-like, through virtualization technology to achieve greater flexibility. But while software-defined technologies (especially software-defined networks) are disruptive and we are also increasingly seeing software-defined networks deployed in production environments, software-defined networking products themselves face open and Standardization issues.