Cloud Computing: 2012 Industry Perspectives

Grazed from TelecomReseller. Author: Ali Din.

2012 was the year cloud computing took off and went mainstream. Some startups recorded exceptional growth, and won numerous awards and recognition. But for some service providers, 2012 was a pretty tough year with a number of outages, affecting millions of users and some even causing permanent data loss to its customers. Still, this didn’t put a damper on the acquisition spree we saw during 2012 as cloud computing’s value continued to shine. Let’s look at what were the key developments and challenges for enterprise cloud computing in 2012.

The evolution of the cloud was much greater than what was expected. Cloud computing helped IT in many organizations become more dynamic – spending grew to over $109 billion, up 20% over the previous year. And that’s not all. Gartner predicts that the total outlay for cloud computing services could nearly double, to $207 billion, by 2016. , It appears that installing-and-upgrading software and infrastructure is becoming less popular by the day…

We also noticed many vendors doing some variations to their service catalogs. For example, some hosters like GoDaddy decided to rationalize their cloud server offering. Meanwhile, there were also some new cloud products launched by a variety of startups. For dinCloud, we expanded our portfolio by launching cloud hosted servers and NetApp-based cloud backup and storage solutions…

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