Experts predict: 2013 five cloud computing trends

It's been a strange year for cloud computing, which has entered mainstream consciousness, but many vendors are still frustrated with the rate of deployment. While there is a consensus on the importance of cloud computing, many vendors see the process of deploying internal cloud computing projects very slow. As you can imagine, suppliers are impatient with this speed, but their frustration is far less than the early investors of these suppliers.

Still, the writer, Bernard Golden of the US CIO website, predicts that 2013 will be a turning point in cloud computing. You can expect that in 2013, the cloud-computing trend in 2012 will become more vivid, and will also make employees uneasy, whether they are buyers or suppliers. It is uncomfortable for many people that cloud computing will disrupt the established order of things within the enterprise.

Here are the five cloud computing trends of the 2013:

1. "Corporate Cloud" will change from market forecast to gluttonous feast

This year, suppliers have been predicting the importance of "corporate cloud", that is, if companies find that their trusted suppliers have good cloud products, they will buy them wildly. The point here is that customers can weaken their reliance on Amazon's cloud computing services through "corporate cloud" products.

Cloud service providers need to understand the motives of buyers and understand that many cloud buyers are different from traditional corporate buyers who have different needs and goals. It is not feasible to use traditional methods to deal with this new type of buyer.

2. Cloud computing will bring more convenience to enterprise developers

In 2013, companies will realize that developers deploy public clouds because of their speed and flexibility. The Enterprise IT department will find that the internal cloud must be as common as the public cloud to meet developers higher expectations, but only to provide a virtualized environment is not enough, but the internal cloud to achieve the flexibility of the public cloud, need process streamlining and end-to-end automation.

If the enterprise is deploying a private cloud without knowing how to integrate End-to-end automation and resolve process barriers, there is a big problem.

3. The public CSP business will face a price war

The price war between Google and Amazon is only to warm up for 2013. As telecoms operators (CSP) Try to weaken Amazon's growth, next year we will see a more intense price war. Even suppliers who have been avoiding price competition will have no choice but to fight. The price war will show who is the heavyweight of the cloud market. For cloud providers, the price war is unusually difficult, with efficient design, low-cost operations and high utilization as the basis for success. This will be good news for customers.

4. Mixed cloud and heterogeneous cloud will surface

Next year we will find the fact that companies will never rely solely on a single cloud technology or supplier. Enterprise is a complex heterogeneous technology environment, which inevitably requires a variety of technologies. And many IT companies and CSPs want the world to be unified in a single technology, but that's not possible.

The 2013-year task of an enterprise IT department is to deploy a management framework that spans all the cloud environments in use. Key requirements include: unified identity management, monitoring, management platform, etc. to control all cloud environments.

5. Cloud spending management becomes more important

Typical enterprise system management ignores the problem of utilization, and brings a heavy financial burden to the current cloud world. In 2013, cloud spending management solutions will become more important, tracking the money you spend, identifying underutilized servers, and providing you with advice on how to save costs. These systems don't help you run applications flexibly depending on your needs (this is the work of cloud management software), but they can help you make sure you don't waste your money on redundant servers or unwise spending plans.

Overall, 2013 will be a year of transition and change

We are moving from the traditional static computing environment to the flexible environment of the new situation. Each new platform can solve the shortcomings of the previous generation, and each new platform will bring its own drawbacks. Cloud computing is no exception, it is strong, and innovative, but it also has its own flaws. In 2013, however, we will begin to truly address these shortcomings of cloud computing (the challenges of scaling, complexity, and change), rather than circling the shortcomings of what they call security, compliance and service-level agreements.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)