Protecting Data in the Cloud
You may have heard of the “Twelve Days of Christmas,” but what about the “Twelve Days of Cloud Predictions”? Well, we have them! And instead of stretching them out to each day, we’ve listed them all here. As we come to the end of 2017, let’s look forward to 2018 and what it holds for the cloud.
Here is a compilation of what the Kodiak Data team anticipates in the cloud world:
12 – Security will continue to be a challenge.
“Security breaches will drive private cloud adoption. Enterprises that have their own data centers still want the performance, security and economics of private clouds.” – Ken Moreau, Customer Solutions Architect and Morgan Littlewood, Co-Founder
11 – SaaS companies will see further integration with other SaaS companies.
“In order to deliver what their customers as asking of them, SaaS companies will allow their product to interact with other products in the cloud or on-prem.” – Kurt Schmidt, Customer Solutions Architect
10 – Server-less clouds will come into play.
“Server-less clouds (the utility model, i.e., moving billing away from fixed units of performance like EC2) will be a big marketing focus, but the major vendor’s implementations will be extremely restrictive and a thin layer over their traditional billing model.” – Ken Moreau, Customer Solutions Architect
9 – Competition between cloud providers will surge.
“New capabilities being driven by customer needs are starting to create niche plays for which the big cloud providers will be coming up with solutions.” – Kurt Schmidt, Customer Solutions Architect
8 – Container services will experience big growth.
“Container services are going to be an affirmation for private clouds. They are going to be the mechanism from private to public clouds.” – Som Sikdar, CEO
7 – A major public cloud provider will acquire a startup.
“Or they will build edge products to fill the emerging gap.” – Robert Noyes, Director of Sales
6 – Edge clouds will accelerate local data.
“Edge clouds will be used to accelerate applications where data is local to a building or a city.” – Morgan Littlewood, Co-Founder
5 – More companies will look for end-to-end solutions.
“In order to provide their products to the business community, companies will add to their solutions to strengthen their positions.” – Kurt Schmidt, Customer Solutions Architect
4 – Hybrid clouds will be the architectural goal.
“This provides users with technical flexibility and economic leverage. Infrastructure management tools that enable hybrid clouds are needed.” – Morgan Littlewood, Co-Founder
3 – Data portability between clouds will become a greater concern.
“We’ll see a dramatic increase in workload portability neutralizing the ‘Hotel California Effect’ label towards AWS and that will cause a ripple effect towards an increase in hybrid clouds.” – Charles Hinchey, VP of Sales, Eastern Region
2 – IoT will drive increase in cloud adoption.
“IoT will cause a substantial increase in the amount of data generated over the next several years. Only the cloud can support this growth.” – Casey Roche, VP of Strategic Sales
1 – More organizations will be heading to varied cloud environments in 2018.
“Large enterprises will seek private cloud technologies that not only provide flexible infrastructure, but also deliver easy, bulk-asset provisioning, deployment. and management.” – Som Sikdar, CEO and Robert Noyes, Director of Sales
Happy Holidays from all of us at Kodiak Data!
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