Is the cloud space at a pivotal point, and if so, where will it go in five to ten years?
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Executive VP & COO in Retail2 years ago
New companies will be born and grow in the cloud and they will never have an on-prem infrastructure.Chief Information Technology Officer in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago
It will become the standard for application deployment, whether in the public or private (externally visible) clouds. Currently the market is aggressively shifting towards using it and a lot of the reservations from the past regarding compliance and reliability are fading away.C-Suite in Construction2 years ago
Hi. I believe that cloud space will gain more and more momentum and market share over the years. However on premise or hybrid will have it’s share of the pie for highly critical transactional services as well as for highly demanding real time applications requiring very low latency applications that would require edge computing…Chief Technology Officer in Education2 years ago
No the cloud space is not at a pivotal point. The success of the cloud is well established and the direction and momentum in that direction is firmly established. It's hard to predict what will happen in this space over the next 5 to 10 years other than what I consider to be the obvious and safe thing - more migration to the cloud and further cloud market growth.
I don't have a crystal ball or any unique insight on the matter but I think over the next 5 - 10 years cloud providers will further differentiate themselves via proprietary hardware, chipsets, and core systems capabilities, especially in the area of AI offerings. I think quantum computing will play some role in reshaping the cloud and the cloud will move beyond the traditional data center to near-earth-satellites and to the edge within the IOT. What we call the cloud today will have a new definition and different physical and functional boundaries.
With that said I'm looking forward to reading this back in 10 years and laughing at how wrong I was.
Another change we’ll see is that instead of having 70% of workloads in their own data centers or in a hosted environment, that split will become the opposite. Today, it's typically 70/30, with 30% on public cloud and 70% on-premises, but eventually it will be the other way around. And the percentage that is on-premises will slowly go down to 10% in the next ten years.