In a decade, the cloud grew and consolidated as one of the most important tools for companies and businesses. According to a Gartner , the total value of the global cloud market is $ 214 billion 2019. This growth is impressive considering that in 2008 alone, the market was valued at just $ 6 billion. of dollars.
Every year, this revolutionary industry offers more innovations and applications for companies; and new trends appear and become popular in the different digital communities. To get a clearer idea of what awaits us next year, here we present 5 trends that cloud computing will have during the year 2020.
1. 5G will allow the use of the perimeter in the hybrid cloud strategy
Edge computing is, in many ways, the next chapter in the cloud . Retailers will benefit from faster updates on consumer buying trends, factories will be able to perform predictive maintenance on near-failure equipment, and cell phone operators will be able to support mobile gaming and augmented reality applications.
According to IBM, in 2020, 5G will become a critical element for companies to adopt edge computing as part of their hybrid cloud strategies, since it offers higher speed and wider bandwidths, necessary to reduce the latency of data as much as possible. As 5G deployments make their way to cellular airwaves, hybrid cloud ecosystems will increasingly take advantage of computing opportunities in the perimeter area.
2. Automation will dominate the next phase of the hybrid and multicloud world
Businesses are embracing the hybrid and multi-cloud strategy at a rapid pace, taking advantage of the flexibility to move mission-critical business applications to the environment of their choice: public, local, or private cloud.
However, because of their strength, scalability, and support for a wide variety of applications, APIs, and data types, hybrid environments are by nature complicated. As a consequence, IBM projects that automated tools , including the first AI offerings, will emerge this year to help manage this complexity. Such tools will enable companies to fine tune their environments, put the right workloads in the right place, control costs, and manage security and encryption keys effectively.
3. Security “command centers” will proliferate as part of hybrid cloud strategies
According to IBM data, around 60% of IT decision makers rate security as the most important attribute in selecting a cloud provider, but this remains a complex problem to manage within hybrid multi-cloud environments.
As a result, the manufacturer predicts that, over the year, we will see more tools emerge that can uncover security information and respond to incidents more quickly, helping to centralize operations. The adoption of DevSecOps, where security is embedded in the development process itself, is another indication that a more connected security ecosystem is something to be expected in 2020.
4. Greater adoption of industry-specific clouds, beyond the banking sector
As organizations turn to the public cloud, they look for solutions that meet the needs of their specific industry. For highly regulated industries, in particular, this means features that ease the burdens on compliance issues. An example is the public cloud for financial services launched by IBM in 2019, which Bank of America will use to host key applications and workloads to support its 66 million bank customers.
According to IBM, this type of cloud provides an important checkpoint and useful template that other industries will follow. Also, because ecosystems will have to target particular markets, because it is very difficult to be generic, the focus will be deepened on offering specific value for each industry and addressing the specific requirements of each sector.
5. Open source tools will continue to spread to make Kubernetes more consumable
Open source technology is having a profound impact on the cloud. For IBM in 2020, developers will focus on tools that can support the rapid deployment of applications that their companies need to stay ahead of the digital transformation.
This means widespread adoption of the continuous delivery paradigm, in which organizations embrace the DevOps philosophy of rapid builds, tests, and deployments. The continuous delivery model grows in parallel with further development of cloud-native applications created from scratch to be deployed across containers and Kubernetes .
In summary, going forward, companies will have a growing palette of options at their disposal to facilitate workload management, accelerate application deployment, ensure maximum security, exploit additive technologies such as perimeter, and more. So the cloud will increasingly deliver value, resilience, and responsiveness to the demands of today’s business.
