10 Cloud Computing Trends for 2010

Cloud Computing | News | Kara Reeder, Monday, December 28, 2009
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Although cloud computing is gaining ground in the enterprise, vendors are still trying to become a platform for business-critical applications. To that end, vendors are working on improving service level agreements, among other things, to encourage enterprises to move to the cloud.

Computerworld offers 10 cloud computing trends for 2010, which include:

  1. Commodity cloud price slashing. Amazon has cut its EC2 prices 15 percent, while Google has dropped its Picasa photo storage pricing from $20 to $5 for a year.
  2. Cloud providers to offer enterprise-caliber SLAs. IT managers want to know that cloud vendors can and will meet business-critical requirements.
  3. New technologies will improve cloud use and performance. Third parties will increasingly focus on adapting data center technologies to cloud environments. For example, Riverbed Technologies is making the core services provided by its hardware appliance into a virtual system that can be used in the cloud.
  4. Cloud providers address security concerns. "Security is the number-one inhibitor to cloud adoption," says Novell's Justin Steinman. Users can expect to see technologies that allow cloud providers to meet different customer security requirements.

Over at our CTO Edge site, SunGard Availability Services Services' Don Norbeck advises that now may be the time for businesses considering cloud computing to do a trial run with a non-critical business process. So, as always, vendors are a little ahead of the pratcial reality of cloud computing lives in the minds of most IT shops.

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I would bet a couple of these
Thu, 2010-03-25 05:39 — IT Services (not verified)
I would bet a couple of these trends will continue to be important. The discussion around how private, public, and hybrid cloud computing will work will certainly continue. I’m expecting, however, that it becomes more focused around the day-to-day practicalities that end user IT departments need to know.

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