Gartner: Telecom operators will turn to cloud services

By Steve Prentice, vice president and senior researcher at Gartner. Over the past year, we have inevitably experienced three things-the financial crisis, global warming, and the explosive growth of data devices that have profoundly changed the global economic environment and business model,　　There is no turning back. Global GDP is expected to grow by 2.6% in 2010, according to Ihsglobalinsight, the global Economic and Financial Analysis agency.　　And some of Asia's leading economic recovery companies are also actively preparing for a rebound in the global economy, at a time when we need to understand the 2010 and the next 10 years the development trend of key ICT technologies, especially the changes in user interaction.　　India-centric cloud services are emerging cloud computing is an irreversible development trend-the development of the computer will be from the mainframe, micro-machines, PCs, networked terminals, the gradual development of cloud computing. In 2012, 20% of enterprises will no longer have it assets, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. Technologies such as virtualization and cloud services will drive these companies towards cutting it hardware assets.　　This does not mean that the computing hardware will disappear from the data center or the employee desktop forever, but that ownership has shifted-to the third party providing the cloud service. This will lead to significant shifts in every aspect of the entire IT hardware industry.　　For example, an enterprise's IT budget will shrink or be allocated to more strategic projects, and corporate IT staff will be downsized or retrained to meet new job requirements, and hardware allocations will change radically to accommodate new purchase requirements. By 2012, India-centric IT companies will represent 20% of the leading cloud service providers in the market. Gartner believes that India-centric service providers have become an important part of cloud services, using sophisticated market position and trust to provide cloud outsourcing services.　　On the other hand, telecoms operators, which have always been known for their reliability, seem to have a broader market outlook in the area of cloud computing, and they need to reposition themselves in the face of a convergence of networks and businesses, and we will not be surprised if telecoms operators become "cloud" service providers one day. Social computing will be the hub of network and reality in my way to deliver my life-by 2012, social computing, represented by Facebook, will support and dominate the development of distributed, interoperable social networks and become a key technology for integrating social networking sites and networking. The impact of this interoperability technology on the survival and development of other social networks, communication channels and media platforms is also far-reaching.　　Other social networks, including Twitter, will need to further specialize in applications, communications and content if they want to continue, but Facebook is going to be the industry's common standard anyway. It is in the context of the development of social computing that mobility is also highlighted. GarIn 2013, Tner predicts, mobile phones will replace PCs as the world's most common Internet access device – by 2013, the total number of PCs will reach 1.78 billion, while the number of smartphones and internet-accessible enhanced handsets will exceed 1.82 billion.　　Those sites that have not yet been optimized for small size screens may have to work on revisions or rebuilding. Text-aware computing creates new business opportunities Gartner estimates that 2012 data will be stored at 5 times times the size of 2008. Despite the risk of drowning in data, most businesses lack information, insight and understanding-the challenge now is to make all the data meaningful and to make better decisions based on that data.　　Anyone can be wise afterwards, but looking to the future, making informed decisions about what is happening and what is going to happen is what we should do. In these massive data information and equipment terminals, most will come from "things and things" communication. Gartner estimates that over the next 10, 100 billion terminals worldwide will support data exchange and 15 billion devices will remain permanently networked.　　The interconnection of a large number of mobile terminals, social networking sites and communications products will mean that sensor computing will usher in a lot of market opportunities. Among them, the text service will be flourishing. It will be based on a large number of data base such as Internet data flow, mobile payment transaction information, user attribute information and so on, mainly focus on user location, existence and social attributes to provide services, and effectively enhance the smartphone and other devices terminal human experience.　　Text-aware technology will also become the key ability for users to use information technology to get effective prediction. Text-aware technology will also have a far-reaching impact on the way mobile consumers serve. The burgeoning rich text service, in many cases, pushes information to the user, creating more business opportunities. With more than 7 billion network devices and more than 1.2 billion smartphones worldwide, text services will be able to further exploit the potential value of the network based on these terminals, but how to release this potential will be one of the major challenges facing it in the future.