Is the cloud space at a pivotal point, and if so, where will it go in five to ten years?

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Chief Enterprise Architect in Finance (non-banking)3 years ago

Cloud is matured and will continue to grow and mature. It will be more omnipresent from edge to everything with more smooth operations to manage in seamless way. Cloud will offer extension to on premise infrastructure like Outpost etc. It will be hybrid and multi-cloud but better tooling, management, portability with decentralization and customer centricity ... more choices ...

With rise of super cloud, another possible outcome will be purpose built cloud, verticals and full stack. I think VDI will take more prominence and used. Security and Data isolation, vaults with stronger policies, temporal nature, context, local ... convergence of Data and Apps ....

Who knows ???

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no title3 years ago

The term is Supercloud as defined by the cloud evangelist. The current era<br>is Hybrid cloud ( on prem and public) evolving into Muti Cloud (More public with multiple Hyperscalars) and next era is managing the complexity through interoperable super cloud with window<br>Pane of glass

Chief Technology Officer in Education3 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.

C-Suite in Construction3 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 Information Technology Officer in Finance (non-banking)3 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.

Executive VP & COO in Retail3 years ago

New companies will be born and grow in the cloud and they will never have an on-prem infrastructure.

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