The term ‘Cloud’ isn’t new to anyone anymore. Neither has it remained new within the IT Industry. Rather, it’s one of the most trending terms on the Internet today. The technology that was thought to be was a couple of dedicated servers connected together within a single network, which resulted in the pooling of resources. But today it has outgrown its core concept and has now evolved into a technology for just about everything. Where it was initially considered to be an IaaS & PaaS, now it’s SaaS, BYOD, Cloud of SAP, Cloud for ERP, Cloud for Storage, and whatnot.
But, despite this rapid development, consumers aren’t very confident about the extent to which the cloud would be able to deliver to their requirements. According to Gartner predictions, in the upcoming two years, Cloud computing and its solution providers will see even more growth. Cloud computing would be the most relevant technology for most businesses and industries across the globe, it’s also expected to replace dedicated resource virtualization. A study was conducted by BSA-The Software Alliance, which ranked the top countries in terms of cloud environments. Based on the studies, Japan is observed to lead the hierarchy, while the US is trending at the 3rd position in the rankings.
By 2015, Gartner anticipates that cloud computing will hasten the use of tools and automation in IT services, resulting in a marked increase in productivity levels for service providers and a reduction in their costs of delivery. These tools and automation solutions are expected to eliminate 25 percent of IT labor hours.
Gartner also predicts that nearly 20% of the non-IT Global 500 enterprises will compete with the IT organizations by offering cloud services by 2015.
To decrypt these predictions and compare them with the current developments, Cloud indeed looks more promising, where the companies and enterprises are expected to grow their investment margins each year by an approximate average of at least 10% per year.
We’ve also observed an increasing demand for our Private Cloud services in recent years. According to predictions based on the trending demands, approximately 75% of consumers would plan to implement their internal IT operations over a private cloud by 2014.
SaaS would also be the branch of the Cloud tree that would gain a rapid momentum by 2015, according to Gartner. It’s also estimated that more than 50% of the total number of enterprises in the developed countries would opt. for SaaS based cloud solutions by the end of 2015.
With the rapidly evolving technological advancements, organizations and enterprises that cope to match the industry developments, would have a competitive advantage by the end of 2015.