2014 15 predictions about developers and the cloud

Large data independent software developers will be more and more in the analysis layer, driving core technical standards and certification innovation.

Big Data is why independent software developers have been forced to step up their efforts in the Innovation analysis layer. But independent software developers are scrambling to build core technologies to support large data infrastructures with many non-standard variants. This includes operating systems, storage infrastructures, and databases with core large data infrastructures such as Hadoop and new forms-equivalent to the current lamp stack. Stacks of industry standards and formal certification will create fewer variants, and independent software developers need to adopt mechanisms for service and support to support this variant. This will allow the products of independent software developers to be used faster by the market.

-ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, custody department, Red Hat

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), the boundaries between a platform that is a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) are increasingly blurred.

As more and more customers pay more attention to their applications and platforms, that is, services/infrastructure, how services can develop and deploy applications more quickly, the boundaries between service and infrastructure, i.e. services, will become increasingly blurred. We will also see more innovations in applications that are created to make the most of the underlying cloud platforms that are designed to be flexible and scalable.

-Ashesh Badani, vice president and general Manager, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat

In the 2014, the interoperability of platform services and OpenStack will be continuously enhanced. Will OpenStack replace the PAAs? In fact, the two are complementary relationships, PAAs generates workloads, and OpenStack provides space for storing them. We will continue our efforts to make PAAs and openstack more tightly integrated and more operational.

-Chuck Dubuque, director, Product Marketing, Virtualization and OpenStack, Red Hat

The boundaries between Iaas,paas and SaaS are going to be broken, and the three will have better integration; Solum OpenStack This project is a perfect embodiment of this.

-Gordon Haff, Cloud evangelist, Red Hat

The growth momentum of data virtualization.

"For example, the data is the gold of the information age, only when an organization can effectively capture and use it." Unfortunately, data is assigned to multiple operations and operating systems in many organizations, making it difficult to effectively and accurately determine the value of data through traditional methods of replication or consolidation. For example, data virtualization, lean integration technology is becoming a response to these challenges and will likely gain popularity over the next year through its own ability to connect, abstract, and unify heterogeneous data sources. ”

-Syed Rasheed, senior Principal product marketing Manager, middleware, Red Hat

Development operations on Demand

Some of the problems surrounding the use of the cloud in order to apply developers will continue to spring up in the past 2014 years. Next year, more dialogue on development operations will focus on PAAs and cloud container technology (container Marvell). Containers will become increasingly popular among it teams, and developers will begin to look for the advantages of development operations, not just in the difficult development process but also in the tools they bring.

Krishnan Subramanian, head of OpenShift strategy,-red Hat Company

PAAs in an enterprise: the need for more complex, all-round support, and continued growth of enterprise application services. Into the Xpaas era.

PAAs has sustained traction in the enterprise, with a more complex and comprehensive support through PAAs products (named Xpaas), with strong demand drivers for enterprise application services. Because of the continuous progress in these areas in the cloud platform and the corresponding infrastructure, the role of proprietary virtualization will weaken due to high cost and focus on peripheral manageability, portability, and lock-in.

-red Hat Company Cloud and OpenShift vice president and general manager Ashesh Badani

From "dedicated" apps to mobile apps in federal agencies

Federal agencies typically develop "proprietary" applications for desktop environments, but looking ahead, developers will focus on porting many of these applications to mobile devices, including public applications and internal applications. There will be an explosion in 2014 when public sector developers use the cloud infrastructure platform and Platform, a service (PaaS), to create mobile applications. Nothing is more important to the organization than adapting to things like electronic office and Mobile Office (BYOD), and the only way to do that is to move front-end applications to mobile platforms.

-Red hat, US public sector chief technology strategist Gunnar Hellekson

Drive innovation from the decomposition phase to the integration phase

At the macro level, it industry tends to cycle through years of decomposition and integration. The decomposition phase is characterized by an explosion of inventions and innovations, with new tools and new platforms constantly appearing to solve various interesting problems. Look at the innovations that have taken place in recent years in the areas of mobile, social, cloud computing and large data. These are good, but the challenge now is to make these things commercially valuable. This is the feature of the integration phase. Innovation integrates with existing assets to improve productivity and profitability. I believe we are beginning to shift from the innovation phase of a single point of solution to the innovation phase of integrating these innovations into business.

-Pierre Fricke, director of middleware product marketing, Red Hat Company

Mixed software-defined storage in a mixed IT environment is increasingly becoming an important means of maintaining application and data migrations

As more and more hybrid it adds to the growing mixed of the data and software architecture of the uncle, a major shift in storage devices has been made-shifting from storage patterns in expensive and inflexible data centers to software-defined storage patterns. As a result, hybrid software-defined storage will increasingly become an important tool for maintaining applications and data migrations in a mixed IT environment. Public APIs using POSIX-based storage software are the only way to easily migrate data between public, private, and mixed-deployed environments. It is absolutely necessary to maintain the flexibility of migrating data between different vendors in applications, internal deployment infrastructure, and OTC vendors.

-Langaulin Gyaca, vice president and general manager, data storage department, Red Hat Linux

Efficiency + security = Increased use of private cloud

Companies need the efficiency of the cloud, but they are not prepared to trust the public cloud with mission-critical data. Warehousing is not an option because it does not have the efficiency of the cloud and therefore leads to competitive disadvantage. In this way, in 2014 years, organizations will increasingly embrace the private cloud environment in order to achieve the efficiency they want, while gaining the security they need.

-Red Hat company OpenShift Strategy director Krishnan Subramanian

Public cloud: Being used more and more; Open source still dominates

We will see more and more companies willing to use the public cloud for their workloads, although there are many security and compliance issues that are difficult to avoid, because the data exists and is regulated on the public cloud. We will also see the dominance of open source in cloud construction, especially the public cloud.

-Gordon Haff, Cloud evangelist, Red Hat

We believe that large or small organizations will move more workloads to the public cloud and leverage public PAAs services. Although public clouds are being used more and more, enterprise cloud deployment--in 2014 and beyond--remains inherently difficult to integrate.

-Ashesh Badani, vice president and general Manager, Cloud and OpenShift, Red Hat

Cloud visualization and Control access services and tools are increasing

In 2014 years, the visualization of the cloud will be the key to security. Users want more visual information about how the cloud works-whether it's infrastructure or PAAs. Now the cloud is still in a "black box" state, the user does not know and do not understand what happened. The 2014 will focus on services or tools such as visualizing the cloud and setting access controls.

-Red Hat company OpenShift Strategy director Krishnan Subramanian

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