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Current Cloud Trends

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Cloud Solution TrendsIn Monday’s blog post, we discussed why small and medium-sized businesses should consider the cloud, especially when it comes to data protection and disaster recovery. Today, let’s again look at a recent cloud trends webinar featuring Joe Lyden, Evolving Solutions Cloud Sales Specialist, and James Keating III, Evolving Solutions Business Technology Architect. Below we focus on what the key trends are in the marketplace.

Some current cloud trends of note are:

  • A growing focus on management of Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads by traditional co-location providers. Companies who at one time may have been seen as AWS competitors are actually now offering AWS management
  • Public cloud vendors: “a two-horse race.” Network World reported Gartner research showing that Amazon and Microsoft Azure are by far the clear dominant players in the public IaaS market
  • People want to talk cloud. The Evolving Solutions team, as James Keating points out in the webinar, is seeing this first hand. More companies have someone who is responsible for cloud and Gartner reports that 6 out of 10 Fortune 500 companies have hired or are looking to hire a director-level person to oversee cloud strategy
  • Cloud as part of the technology tool belt.  No longer is cloud consider “new” or “something for that project in the future,” instead the cloud is seen as a standard tool that the technology team can tap to improve current operations, meet new demands and drive innovation

Here are also specific use-cases our team is seeing. First, more businesses are turning to the cloud for disaster recovery, because disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) provides businesses more protection and resiliency at an affordable, pay-as-you-go price. More businesses are also looking for an integrated monitoring service – cloud and on-premise systems together. Finally, businesses are also developing what we call a “private hybrid.” In other words, companies are asking what applications work best on-premise and which applications work best in the cloud without intention to bursting into the cloud. This is neither a true hybrid or public cloud.  This scenario is what our James calls, “a private cloud with a side of public cloud storage or backups.”

Want to talk more about how current cloud trends are shaping up and what that might mean to your company? Contact Evolving Solutions to discuss. You can also listen to Joe and James’ full cloud trends webinar here.


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