Virtualization and Cloud executives share their predictions for 2015. Read them in this VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed article by Greg Ness, VP of Worldwide Marketing at CloudVelox
2015 will be a Banner Year for Cloud
Last year I predicted that Amazon would cozy up to the
enterprise-friendly hybrid cloud. I think they have. Thusly, I think
next year they will gain considerable traction in the large enterprise,
with larger deployments in shorter periods of time.
So this year, I'll
make my predictions short and sweet:
- AWS will accelerate traction in the Fortune 200 as more CIOs shift from
premise-think to cloud-think. IT costs will decline and agility will
increase in these companies. For many of these companies, security will
be enhanced.
- Live migration will become a
critical onboarding requirement, forcing cloud migration "body shops"
into automation (the quick versus the dead scenario).
- Cloud service providers will step up acquisition activity in an effort to establish market supremacy.
- Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) will start displacing 3rd party/hosted
data centers with pilot light operating models (pay for outages and
tests versus 24x7 expense).
##
About the Author
Greg Ness, VP of Worldwide Marketing at CloudVelox
Before
joining CloudVelox Greg was Chief Marketing Officer at Vantage Data
Centers, where he helped the company establish itself as a leader in
wholesale data centers. He joined Vantage from Infoblox (BLOX) where he
was Vice President of Corporate Marketing. Before Infoblox, Greg was
Vice President of Marketing at Blue Lane Technologies (acquired by
VMware) and Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Redline Networks
(acquired by Juniper Networks). Before Redline Greg had key marketing
roles at IntruVert (acquired by McAfee) and ShoreTel (SHOR). Gregory
has a BA in Political Science from Reed College and a Master's Degree in
Middle Eastern Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. He has
spoken at Cisco Live, Future in Review, Interop, and Cloud Connect on
topics related to networking, virtualization and cloud computing.
http://www.cloudvelox.com/