2014 Cloud Computing Ten predictions

Farewell to the surging 2011, CA Technologies, an established company with the accumulation and advantage of IT management software history and cloud computing in 35, put forward a new year of virtualization and cloud computing at the beginning of the 2012 year:

1. No matter how the product changes, the technology is the hard truth

The world we live in is not the post-PC era, nor the post-mainframe era. The data center will not end with the cloud, the physical environment will not be terminated by the virtual environment, the PC will not be finished by the tablet, Windows will not be terminated by Mac, IOS will not be terminated by Android, and the DVD will not be terminated by streaming media. The growing technology has made our choices grow, and almost every technology has become stronger than ever. So, what we have to do is prepare for the choice of more and more technologies in the public and private sectors.

2. Next hot-mix it

In this new world of choice, hybrid it will be a new choice for businesses, such as local and offsite environments, cloud computing and traditional technologies, private and public, physical and virtual, social and security, enterprise and consumer, desktop and server, mobile and static. Companies can also collaborate through it, whether it owns the service or not. It will become a trusted consultant, service agent and quality assurance in this new and complex hybrid it world.

3. Quality of service will once again be the responsibility of it

With the spread of mixed it, people in business will again realize that they don't want to manage technology, just want technology to work. In the 2012, end users will want it to assume responsibility for ensuring quality of service, regardless of who buys, sells or provides such services. It needs to eliminate blind spots in mixed it, support explosive growth of devices, respond to complex cross-border services, and seek a way to provide 360-degree service coverage to cover all aspects of the end-user experience.

4. Public cloud popularization rate will slow down

The conclusion comes from Longhaus Research's findings this year in Australia (Australia is an early-adopters and pioneer market for commercial technology) and, in fact, the spread of public clouds in other parts of the world is slowing. Issues such as security, compliance, quality of service, skills, staffing, complexity and old-fashioned political institutions, including imaginary and real-world problems, will slow the pace of popularization. It is not clear whether "cloud stagnation" (cloud stall) will be as obvious as "virtual stall", but the popularity of the 2012-year public cloud will noticeably slow.

5. Public cloud "becomes" safer

Many business decision-makers still distrust the public cloud. It must do better in deploying and interpreting cloud security in the 2012. In the 2012, as companies adopt more and better cloud-oriented security solutions, including solutions designed for complex, mixed cloud services, and solutions delivered via the cloud with Easy-to-use security SaaS options, CIOs will see the obstacles to the spread of security issues weakening.

6. Mainframe back Again (one)

The mainframe did not disappear, on the contrary, in the 2012, the mainframe will emerge as an astonishing cloud platform. Mainframe is a natural cloud platform with large scale scalability, an important and underutilized "big data" that can run complex cloud workloads in a variety of architectures, such as z/OS, Linux, UNIX, and Microsoft. It will not replace the commercial cloud (commodity clouds), but large companies and governments will invest more in bringing mainframes into their cloud environments.

7. The mainframe is back (ii)

The idea of integrated computing, networking, and storage for Mainframe has revived again, but this is not the mainframe of our grandparents ' era. It has transformed the integration infrastructure of virtualization and cloud computing. And to make people realize that these integrated boxes have a great ability to run multiple, dynamic, massive workflows (such as desktop virtualization, pop-up data centers, and cloud bursts), Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) and VCE Vblock The deployment of such an integrated architecture will accelerate in 2012.

8. Cloud computing towards isomerization

Not only are large opportunities part of the cloud environment, public cloud providers will also start to provide UNIX and even other x86 platforms. This practice has been implemented internally by CA Technologies several years ago, and most large enterprises rely heavily on heterogeneous systems to run their mission-critical applications. Despite the misconception that "cloud = Commercial Server", heterogeneous services will continue to be used more for large enterprise deployments.

9. Mature Cloud service management is pushed to the foreground

In 2011, the NIST Cloud Reference Architecture used an entire chapter on "Cloud Services management" and the IT community began talking about "mature" rules such as planning, budgeting, performance, assets, inventory, service levels, auditing, and more. By 2012, even "commercial" cloud vendors will begin to focus on cloud management as companies and governments raise demand for these rules, as well as small providers to show advantages in terms of services and security, not just prices.

10. Virtual management is no longer important

The January 2009 CA Technologies predicted: 3-5 years later, as virtualization will become a core part of the enterprise computing architecture, virtual System management vendors will no longer exist. Three years later, this trend is clear, and as it shifts to mixed IT management, companies realize that independent virtualization management islands have become an expensive and inefficient burden, a trend that will be further strengthened in 2012. Perhaps 2012 years we will not witness the end of virtualization management, but it will surely be the beginning of its end.