Four Trends in Cloud Computing | Luke Lonergan
With the role of chief
information officers continuing to evolve, the next year promises some trends
that will put pressure on them to meet the expectations of customers, employees
and partners. In the next year, the
C-suite managers in IT will need to balance the capacities of the latest cloud
computing technology while also giving attention on security.
Here are four trends in
cloud computing that chief information officers should gear up for in 2019:
1.
The number of cloud services and solutions (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) will continue to
rise
As per Bain &
Company, subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) will increase at a
rate of 18% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) by 2020.
As per KPMG, investment
in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) will rise to 56% in 2019 from 32% in 2016. As per Gartner,
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market is expected to touch USD72.4 billion
by 2020 all over the globe. Considering the ongoing
cloud computing trends, the volume of cloud solutions in both private and
government sectors will increase in 2019.
2.
Quantum computing is closer than we think
Computer giants such as
IBM, Google, Microsoft and Intel are working to develop the first quantum
computer that can deliver promised solutions such as solving complex medical
problems, data encryption, real conversations with artificial intelligence,
weather prediction and improved financial modeling. In November last year, IBM
unveiled a 20-qubit and a 5-qubit version and started offering quantum
computing as a cloud service. Samsung, Barclays, Daimler Honda and JPMorgan
Chase were the first to sign up for testing.
3.
Large number of businesses will transition to hybrid cloud solutions
Several companies are
reluctant to opt-in to cloud computing for the high costs and risks associated
with it, but with hybrid cloud computing the costs and risks are mitigated and
companies can make the transition at their own pace. In 2019, a large number of
companies will opt-in for a hybrid cloud computing that will enable them to
access the effectiveness and efficiency of cloud solutions.
4.
With General Data Protection Regulation, cloud security will become trickier
After the introduction
of the General Data Protection Act (GDPR), security risks will pose a threat to
the cloud computing technology.
A Gartner report says
that 99 percent of vulnerabilities exploited will continue to be ones known by
IT and security professionals for a minimum of one year by 2020.
In 2019, companies will
have the tough task to make sure that their data practices completely adhere to
the stipulations of GDPR.
With the above trends
in the next year, the chief information officers need to make sure that they
are up-to-date with the developments going on in the cloud computing
technology.
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