What to Expect in 2012: Cloud Computing and Open Source Software

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:00:00 EST

In 2011, the cloud computing market continued to mature, driven by the development of enterprise-class cloud virtualization infrastructure and a strong focus on security, stability and scalability of cloud solutions. We also began to see growth in new categories of value-added cloud services such as analytics, mobile, media, and finance. Based on these 2011 findings, in 2012 we can expect the following to emerge as industry-changing trends: An increasing number of enterprises will use public cloud infrastructure for disaster recovery planning. The ongoing economic downturn will intensify enterprises’ drive to find ways to conserve in-house IT resources. Enterprises will also cut costs by improving the efficiency of their server and application infrastructures. Disaster recovery planning places a heavy cost burden on corporations because of the need to maintain a fully redundant server infrastructure, which typically involves setting up secondary data centers at one or more geographically dispersed locations. A number of established cloud service providers including Amazon AWS and Rackspace are starting to offer disaster recovery services.

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What to Expect in 2012: Cloud Computing and Open Source Software