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Tuesday, 14 January 2020

Cloud in 2020: not the cloud you knew

Cloud computing has been available for over a decade, and looks quite different today. For example, clouds of any shape, size and form, collectively known as “multicloud” plaforms, are finally the mainstream standard, say industry observers.

Source: Dell Technologies. Jeff Clarke.
Source: Dell Technologies.
Clarke.
In a blog post, Jeff Clarke, COO and Vice Chairman, Dell Technologies, says that acceptance that public and private clouds can co-exist becomes a reality in 2020. “Multicloud IT strategies supported by hybrid cloud architectures will play a key role in ensuing organisations have better data management and visibility, while also ensuring that their data remains accessible and secure,” he said.

The idea of discrete private clouds is outdated, however. Clarke says, “As 5G and edge deployments continue to rollout, private hybrid clouds will exist at the edge to ensure the real-time visibility and management of data everywhere it lives. That means organisations will expect more of their cloud and service providers to ensure they can support their hybrid cloud demands across all environments.”

Gary Lim, Director, System Engineering, Commvault believes that cloud-based services will prevail in the new decade. “The software-as-a-service (SaaS) model is in a boom period as customers are choosing to pay only for what they need, through an ongoing subscription basis. SaaS offerings are gaining wide acceptance for their ease-of-use, speed, lower infrastructure costs and scalable value propositions,” he said.

Source: NetApp. Atish Gude.
Source: NetApp.
Gude.
Atish Gude, NetApp Chief Strategy Officer, said that the “widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de-facto architecture for enterprise customers” is pushing more businesses to modernise their infrastructure and deliver business value.

“As a result, organisations are shifting from on-premises to leverage public cloud services, building private clouds, and moving from disk to flash in data centres – sometimes concurrently. These transformations open the door to enormous potential, but also introduce the unintended consequence of rising IT complexity,” he noted.

“We predict that a demand for simplicity and customisability will be the No. 1 factor driving IT purchasing decisions in 2020. Vendors will need to provide customers modern, flexible technologies with the choice of how to use and consumes these technologies to meet evolving business models. As IT departments look to de-emphasise maintenance and hardware, reduce overhead, and adopt pay-as-you-go models, simplicity and choice will be key.”

Source: Rackspace. Sandeep Bhargava.
Source: Rackspace. Bhargava.
Sandeep Bhargava, MD of Asia Pacific/Japan, Rackspace, agrees that multicloud will become the preferred IT foundation for more organisations. “For multicloud to deliver value, it needs to be integrated, support DevOps, and scale services to meet variable workload demands. Recognising this, some cloud giants have introduced solutions – such as AWS Outpost, Azure Arc, and Google Anthos – that can ensure consistent development and operations experience across on-premise, private and public clouds.

“As the competition among cloud hyperscalers to become the provider of choice heats up, we believe that more of such unified, hybrid/multicloud tools will be rolled out (in 2020). Those solutions will leverage Kubernetes to provide the scalability and portability needed to effectively support the digital enterprise,” he said.

Bhargava added that with the wide range of choices available, organisations will need to select the right cloud platform and tool for different workloads carefully, instead of taking a one-size-fits-all approach to cloud deployment. “Only by doing so will they be able to accelerate the value of their multicloud with an eye to deliver the desired business outcomes with optimised investment,” he said.

Open source takes charge in the cloud

Stu Garrow, SVP & General Manager APAC at Talend, a cloud data integration and data integrity provider, said that open source technologies will drive multicloud adoption. “The ability to accommodate an array of applications and host them in any cloud or open-source containers will help spur multicloud adoption. While the use case is still rare today, the movement will pick up in 2020, as more enterprises realise the capabilities of open-source technologies in cloud environments,” he said.

“Public cloud providers’ services like Azure ARC, Google Anthos, and Amazon Outposts will leverage multicloud deployments powered by their stacks.”

Garrow explained that open-source technologies enable a common environment across different cloud environments because they are cloud-agnostic, and easy to run.

Security baked in

Clarke of Dell added that security and data protection will be integrated into hybrid cloud environments. “Bolting security measures onto cloud infrastructure will be a non-starter…it’s got to be inherently built into the fibre of the overall data management strategy edge to core to cloud,” he stated.

Talend's Garrow believes that data responsibility, data sovereignty, and increased data governance come into their own in 2020. “2020 will bring an even stronger need to trace everything you do with your data as GDPR and the newly implemented CCPA are carried out…This will make it more important than ever for companies to have a clear way to account for every bit of data they house, down to how it was obtained, to protect everyone who touched it,” he said.

Pay as you go

Clarke predicts that flexible consumption and as-a-service options will accelerate rapidly in 2020. “As a result – (organisations will) be able to choose the right economic model for their business to take advantage of end-to-end IT solutions that enable data mobility and visibility, and crunch even the most intensive AI and machine learning workloads when needed,” he said.

“In 2020, technology partners will continue to prioritise SaaS-based offerings. SaaS will evolve with new capabilities like storage, container and cloud technologies converging to allow automated infrastructure management processes and simplified multicloud environments which will reap the benefits of costs reductions and accelerated time to market,” agreed Lim from Commvault.

Cooperation, not consolidation

Garrow also said that best-of-breed technologies for enterprise cloud deployments will trump single-platform solutions. “Rather than consolidation, organisations will look to best-of-breed cloud technologies to provide the services that they need for their enterprise deployments. The agility provided through the flow and exchange of data across companies will become more critical as organisations are looking to optimise their operations and maximise ROI. We will see a trend of the top cloud providers joining forces to house their applications in each other’s environments,” he said.

Explore:

Read more about cloud security concerns in 2020 predictions on security, to be published in January 2020.

Veeam also listed some predictions for cloud in 2020

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