2014 Cloud Computing: 5 trends in the New Year

Cloud computing is not just a buzzword. It is a big trend for moving from an internal data center to a third-party facility. There are a number of smaller trends in that big trend, which have important implications for industry and IT operations. Here is a future outlook for cloud leaders to see the most significant trend of the 2014.

Cloud computing and CDN boundaries more blurred, the network will be more effective

This may be the last bastion on the road to embracing the cloud, and the network will continue to be the focus in 2014. "Edge" computing has attracted widespread interest, and cloud computing has become a more efficient way to deliver content.

"The line between the cloud and the CDN will continue to blur and it will become important to run the cloud geographically, in order to be more stable and to have a place in the cloud, you have to use offsite disaster tolerance," said Robert Miggins, senior vice president of Peer 1 business development. Of course, these different geographical machines must be run seamlessly. "When you implement a distributed content, a CDN, many customers flock in, because you have a lot of choices for each other's data centers."

"Keep the data as close to the user as possible, ensuring that the continuous experience of any local user is critical," said Basho market director Tyler Hannan. ”

Juniper NX predicts: "Cloud computing will become more important for business strategy, and information leaders will need to rethink the role of the web to fulfill their cloud commitments, and the Enterprise data Center is a resource pool for the time being: lack of integration between computing, storage, and networking, This will prevent the business from achieving the goal of agile and efficient operations. As businesses begin to realize the benefits of cloud access to these goals, a mature deployment and coordination system like OpenStack and Cloudstack, managing the datacenter will be as simple as managing the workflow. Therefore, the network will be integrated into the cloud workflow, making it more operational efficiency, and can quickly and rapidly meet the changing needs.

Open Source: From Alternative solutions to prime time

Rackspace CTO John engates says "Open source is a thing that exists for a long time, but in general it is just an alternative." CIOs are more willing to choose enterprise technology, but there are many uncontrolled development problems, open source is trying to catch up. Rackspace never believed that open source technology could make up the whole system.

Engates continued: "You don't expect a supplier to fully meet your requirements." For businesses, there is absolutely no such thing as easy, and DevOps is driving this change. Developers don't have that much influence in the past, and now most of them are the influencers of technology decisions. Sometimes only developers use Open-source software to do his thing-there is no RFP link. The developer defines the prototype of the whole thing. ”

"The scale of events has prompted people to turn to open source, and most customers have endured expensive licensing fees." No one wants to pay an authorization fee each time a cloud server is added, and patent licensing fees can only deter organizations. The advent of SaaS (software as a service) is making up for this-by renting, you can reduce reliance on some well-known software vendors. In the past, no one could have imagined the absence of Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, but now every company is beginning to see opportunities. There are fewer shackles on it, and many SaaS companies see it as a way to build their infrastructure.

From public cloud or private cloud, to public cloud and private cloud

Public and private clouds will coexist: they are complementary, not competitive. Equinx said: "We also see the cloud controversy from the ' private or public ' to ' private and public ' change, enterprises in the private cloud to benefit from the security and reliability, but also take advantage of the public cloud scalability and flexibility. In fact, Gartner recently recommended that businesses design private cloud services take into account a hybrid future and that future integration and interoperability are possible. ”

"We have confidence in the need for hybrid computing," said Miggins of Peer 1, "which is more than just a forecast in a mixed world, with more and more mixed computing requirements received over the past 12 months." ”

Cloud Container

Container technology is a more effective way to migrate applications, Rackspace recently acquired a company called ZEROVM, precisely for the company's container technology. And Docker is another player.

Rackspace CTO John engates says container technology will take off and be used heavily in production. Engates said: "We received a lot of attention, every customer is talking about (Container), use it." ”

Container technology simplifies deployment and cloud application management. The next big thing is container encapsulation and application virtualization, and of course these are not just machines. It makes things smaller, lighter, and faster, separating each individual user in a single container, and it makes the entire development experience better.

Cloud--the birthplace of value-added services

Janae Stow Lee, senior vice president of Quantum FileSystem and Archive, said: "Expect more MSPs and VARs to be added to the cloud Backup-as-a-service and Dr-as-a-service, the product line will be wider, To bring more value-added services to users, and after providing the basic technology, cloud storage providers will play an important competitor to the current cloud giants. ”