According to leading cloud computing experts, with the continuous development of the cloud computing market, the focus of the market is shifting from software as a service to infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which will provide organizations with more choices and opportunities to manage their own solutions and services.
IaaS is a configuration mode in which organizations access computing resources on demand, including storage, hardware, servers, and network components.
Although PaaS technology is maturing, the market is still learning how to extend PaaS concepts to customized software development, as explains platform engineering. The development of the best DevOps business model and operation model may promote the extensive deployment next year. This trend will drive federal system integrators to deploy PaaS. Suppliers who use PaaS to deliver customized software products, leveraging the principles of platform engineering, will enjoy significant cost advantages. If you want to learn more about this technology, this Duplocloud blog explains platform engineering in great detail.
How will cloud computing continue to evolve?
1. Cloud technology will be integrated.
More attention will be paid to infrastructure as a service, which can improve the awareness of IT infrastructure construction, purchase or lease. For organizations, this will bring more opportunities and choices, drive the need for more analysis, and further help to understand how cloud computing technology will be used to improve task performance.
2. Customized software.
Although PaaS technology is maturing, the market is still learning how to extend PaaS concepts to customized software development. The development of the best DevOps business model and operation model may promote the extensive deployment next year. This trend will drive federal system integrators to deploy PaaS. Suppliers who use PaaS to deliver customized software products will enjoy significant cost advantages.
3. Integration will become a new “killer application”.
Cloud service broker is becoming a key component of managing hybrid enterprise IT environment, and the new member of the market – cloud access security agent is becoming an important complementary broker service. As cloud service standardization becomes more common, federal system integrators will rapidly evolve into government service integrators to provide fully integrated and secure cloud service solutions on demand.
India and outsourcing countries will promote the wide deployment of PaaS.
Major outsourcing countries are exploring how to use PaaS to reduce development costs and increase profits, which directly affects whether they can become the preferred supplier. Security concerns and the need to maintain existing domestic jobs may lead to a reduction in global offshore outsourcing. However, cost savings from offshoring may drive its deployment. It is economically infeasible for many procurement organizations to refuse to use outsourcing services and suppress users’ demand for software developers.
The main data centers will experience the “survival of the fittest” link.
Data center consolidation will continue to occur. Smaller regional data centers will complement the work of larger data centers. These regional data centers will provide caching and local storage services. Organizations will feel increasing pressure because they need to consider giving up their government owned data centers.
Organizations will quickly adopt cloud service brokerage.
Cloud service broker and cloud access security agent are becoming important complementary services. The IT department is currently working hard to learn these skills or cooperate with the outside to obtain these services. In this multi procurement environment, management tools are essential. In order to better handle the new paradigm of mixed IT, the government will also need to review and update its security policies to achieve the transformation from infrastructure centric to data centric security posture.
Cloud computing brings changes.
Cloud computing is transforming every business model. The sharp reduction of IT costs will help the government effectively cope with the increasing financial pressure. Cloud computing will also enable the government to provide more valuable services.
Cloud technology deployment will evolve from a choice to a necessary condition.
Cloud computing is a rapidly growing business worth billions of dollars. Amazon has the ability to challenge IBM to compete for the $600 million federal cloud project, marking the arrival of this new era of cloud computing. Smaller and more flexible cloud service providers will stimulate competition and enable the widespread deployment of cloud computing.
