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Contributed article by Giridhar LV, head of VMUnify
Three cloud predictions for 2014
My three predictions for 2014 are:
- Cloud Platform Consolidation: This is the
beginning of the consolidation around the following three as the platforms of
choice for the Infrastructure offerings in an Enterprise and Service Provider
world:
- VMware vCloud Director / vCloud Automation
Center - The existing VMware deployments
will slowly start migrating to using the Cloud Management tools from VMware
- Microsoft Hyper-V/SCVMM/AzurePack - A new
credible alternative with SCVMM 2012 R2, same or better features when compared
to v5.5 from VMware
- Openstack - The conversation is now no longer
about difficult it is to implement Openstack, instead it is about how it can be
customized to solve business problems
- Public Clouds go local and global: While Amazon
will continue its growth; Azure, Google, HP etc., will continue to gain
traction. However, this doesn't mean that the Local Service Providers will
lose; they will also continue to gain traction, this will be due to their
ability to provide the better service and an assurance on where the customer
data will stay.
- Shadow IT shows the way: Enterprises will
seriously start evaluating on whether they need to run their own data centers.
An enterprise will start classifying its workloads into
Dev/Test and Production. The Enterprise IT teams will probably use different
Service Providers to host these different workloads, the road shown by Shadow
IT will become main stream.
And before I end, I want to revisit my prediction for 2013: http://vmblog.com/archive/2012/11/15/vmunify-2013-predictions-iaas-going-beyond-virtual-server-templates.aspx#.UqhCgfT7v4A. Well, many Cloud Platform vendors and Cloud Providers have
begun offering more than just IaaS templates, we'll be offering one too
shortly.
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About the Author
Giridhar LV has worked in the IT industry for more than
20 years. He is currently the head of VMUnify, VMUnify helps Service Providers
and Enterprises deliver business solutions on the Cloud. In this role he is
responsible for the Sales and Marketing of VMUnify. His areas of interest
include Virtualization, File Systems, Data Protection, Operating Systems and Entrepreneurship.