3 Cloud Strategy Trends to Know Heading into 2022
Cloud computing is fueling innovation at jaw-dropping speed. But this is only the beginning
Add bookmarkThough over 60% of companies have already moved their workloads to the cloud, we’re still in the early stages of cloud innovation. As organizations strive to balance innovation, security, agility and speed, cloud technology and the providers that build them will continue to evolve.
To break things down further, here are some of the major trends currently dominating the cloud conversation.
Edge Computing
We have good news and bad news. The bad news is that clouds are starting to show strain. In between fueling the work-from-anywhere revolution and accommodating the astonishingly large amounts of data produced every day, some clouds are cracking under the pressure.
The good news is that this problem has a solution: edge computing. With traditional cloud computing, data storage and computing takes place in a central location that can be thousands of miles away from the devices that generate it. Edge computing, on the other hand, takes place in close proximity to the data source.
As data does not have to travel back and forth over long distances, edge computing has the potential to dramatically reduce latency. In addition, as data is decentralized and distributed over multiple locations, it helps reduce the severity of data breaches and other security incidents.
Though edge computing offers many benefits, it should not be considered a replacement for public cloud technology but rather a complimentary one. In the future, most organizations will likely leverage both, using the public cloud to aggregate data from edge locations to power large, complex data science projects.
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Multicloud Joint Ventures
At this point, no one cloud vendor can do it all. As such, over 90% of companies have a multicloud strategy already in place. Realizing that this is just the nature of the market, a number of big-name cloud providers are partnering together to form joint ventures and provide increased interoperability.
For example, last year, Microsoft and Oracle joined forces, enabling their customers to migrate and run their enterprise application workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. Vodafone and IBM also teamed up to build multicloud solutions that “provide clients with the open, flexible technologies they need to integrate multiple clouds and prepare for the next wave of digital transformation enabled by AI, 5G, edge and Software Defined Networking (SDN).”
As multicloud is here to stay and cloud providers need to find new, creative ways to compete against industry giant AWS, we predict that such partnerships will become increasingly common and enticing.
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The Continued Rise of Cloud Native Technology
The days of migrating services and applications to the cloud are winding down. Now products and applications are increasingly designed for and in the cloud.
By taking advantage of the flexibility, scalability, and resilience cloud computing provides, cloud-native approaches enable developers to build, deploy and update applications much faster than previous methods, but without compromising quality.
As such, organizations are increasingly relying on containers and kubernetes to support their transition to cloud-native. In fact a 2020 CNCF survey found 92% of companies had already adopted containerization, representing a 300% increase since 2016. In addition Kubernetes use had grown to 83%, up from 78% from the previous survey.