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FINAL WORD
Cloudy weather
ahead?
Six predictions
for 2018
Just a few years ago, not many predicted
cloud computing would reach the heights
we’ve seen in recent years. A total of 79%
of companies now run workloads in the
cloud (split almost evenly between public
and private clouds). With the cloud bar
constantly being raised, Kamal Anand,
VP of the A10 Cloud Business Unit, asks
where do we go from here?
A
10, which operates in both the Middle East and Africa, has
switched on its flux capacitor and revved its DeLorean time
machine to 88 miles per hour to see what’s ahead in 2018.
Here are its six cloud based predictions:
True hybrid cloud emerges
Hybrid cloud is all the buzz. The ability for enterprises to
have applications run in different infrastructures – public and
private clouds and on-premise with common orchestration and
management tools – is enticing. Multi-cloud, with different workloads
running in different clouds and being managed separately, will
become the dominant mode in 2018, while true hybrid clouds will
start to emerge.
There are already key technology developments and partnerships
forming to make this a reality. For example, Azure and Azure Stack
from Microsoft provide a uniform set of infrastructure and API
capabilities across public and private clouds; the partnership between
VMware and AWS; and the teaming up of Cisco and Google. These
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