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 Cloud services are here to stay. Accessibility and simplicity are the major benefits when all of the pictures on Facebook to product data is in the cloud. However, the development offers simultaneous challenges and emerging issues.
The cloud is the word processor in Google Docs, network hard drive into
Dropbox and music in Spotify. But the cloud is also the unprocessed
computational power, the empty storage space that Amazon sells. And
also the platform that Facebook and Microsoft Azure is for developers of
apps and programs.
The cloud is not one. Rather, a cloud landscape and to continue to weather the analogy: the prognosis is increasingly cloudy.
We see a demand from users who want easy to use services accessible
everywhere, while the evolution of technology makes that particular
trend, says Gregor Petri, an analyst at Gartner.
He highlights several factors that are driving developments.
The world's consumers are becoming more advanced technology in their
hands, they get used to the user-friendly services that are always
available. But consumers are also workers and expects to increasingly
powerful and easy to use services even at work.
While we have a technology that makes it possible to build network services that are shared by all users in all the earth.
Finally, the needs of business becoming so complex that their own IT
department, if such exist at all, many times not able to deliver what is
required.
Another important factor is the economy. With a cloud service is the
cost from the operating budget, where the services are paid by user,
month by month. Depending on the time horizon, it may mean that it will
be cheaper than making a large investment in hardware and software
licenses.
A depressed prices is possible thanks to a shared infrastructure, where
each user if that is an individual or a company only pay for actual
consumption, measured as CPU cycles or storage space.
Cloud providers let many customers share the same hardware and can
therefore use the better, with depressed prices as a direct consequence.
It is welcome for services that do not need to size the server farm after the peaks.
Dropbox, where you can store files, is a typical example. The company
does not own their hardware, but rents space in Amazon's cloud and thus
can easily grow as customers flock to stores and more and more data.
When Amazon launched its cloud services we just shook his head and
assumed that morphological operations in any way subsidized their offer,
says Mikael Haglund, technical director at Swedish IBM.
But as we sat down and counted, looked at how long it would actually be
possible to automate this type of service and so on. Then we discovered
that there are margins also at these price levels.
But drivers are not just about cost savings. With cloud and web
applications can pace of development screwed up significantly. With the
old model, where new versions of the software delivered on CD, was a
typical development cycle of three to four years.
Furthermore, you can try out different ideas to different users and see
what gets the best reception. Or roll back to this old version, if the
news did not come to fruition.
Had Facebook existed in the ancient world had the updates come every
three, every four years. Which? Days, with Facebook's rapid
development, is an impossible thought, says Philippe Botteri at venture
capital firm Accel Partners.
Microsoft is a clear example of companies who have to leave the old licensing model.
Daniel Akenine, Swedish chief technology officer at Microsoft, explains.
For us it is a system change, now working almost 90 percent of our developers with the cloud in one way or another.
He believes, like all other new technologies have talked to, that the
cloud has a bright future. Most to gain, at least in the short term,
they seem to small businesses have.
For small and smaller, it is perhaps unrealistic to imagine a future
where you only use the cloud. For them it is a convenience factor, they
do not have to run their own servers and update the operating system.
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