Predictions: clouds will change 2019
For ten years, clouds have already affected small and medium-sized businesses. Big business using these technologies gets an undeniable competitive advantage. 2019 promises everyone an even greater flight into the clouds.
New enterprise platforms combine highly developed services and low-cost cloud infrastructure.
So, how will cloud technology affect 2019?
- Enterprise spending on cloud services will increase. Companies are updating existing applications and legacy systems. At the same time, there is a simpler way: software as a service (SaaS) will be even more widespread.
- Use hybrid and multi-cloud platforms will become more common.
Today, companies distribute information and workload between enterprise infrastructure, hybrid and multi-clouds. Or even just purchase software as a service (SaaS), and then the provider serves everything. This greatly simplifies work and increases cost transparency. The trend will continue. - Availability will increase. In 2019, we will see the continuation of the massive spread of technology. From virtualization and hypervisors to cloud computing. The leading factor will be open source applications. This will cover all areas from the application stack to operating systems. The development area will become key and will have a significant impact on the whole year.
- In 2019, a mass of services will appear that can satisfy the demand of almost everyone. From integration with blockchain technology to mobile systems. Cloud technologies will offer integrated platform services as a service (iPaaS), data protection as a service (dPaaS), mobile backend as a service (mBaaS), etc.
- Full Stack developers will need to understand data processing engines. With the transition of enterprises and organizations to the clouds, new opportunities open up for data engineers. More and more enterprises are taking advantage of data processing and analytics at key points in their business. Developers are expected to require Spark knowledge.
- Implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. It started back in 2017 and since then has only been gaining momentum. In 2019, we expect acceleration of development in this area, because more and more enterprises are moving to the cloud.
- Specialists in education in IT. Although special trainings for IT workers already exist, it is expected that there will be trainers who will focus on training staff so that they can keep up with the times in cloud technology. They will work closely with IT directors to combine learning objectives with company roadmaps to get the best results.
- Containerization In containerization, an application or service, its dependencies, and configuration are packaged together into a container image. Containers contain all the necessary and ready-to-use files, configurations, libraries, etc. At the moment, they play a key role in the implementation of cloud technologies and are very attractive to the IT world due to portability. In 2019, a significant increase in containerization is expected, especially with regard to small services.
- Old applications will be superseded by cloud services. When cloud technologies just developed, companies usually just uploaded their infrastructure to the cloud. It is now expected that the functionality provided by cloud providers will replace and supersede enterprise applications. We are talking about databases, solutions for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, etc.
So, the key points:
- Widespread use of various cloud services
- The need for cloud savvy professionals
- AI and Machine Learning Development
2019 promises to be dynamic. There is no longer a question of the pros or cons of cloud technology - the question is who will take advantage of cloud services faster and thereby win the competition.