Stumbled upon an rather interesting write-up by James Staten of Forrestor: Top 10 Cloud Predictions For 2012: The Awkward Teenage Years Are Upon Us.
He predicts:
He predicts:
- Shadow IT enters the light – deal with it.
- The uncool attempting to be cool – not cool.
- A risky idea lands a big fish in jail.
- Conservative leaders ban the cloud as unhealthy.
- The channel will face the music – reselling isn’t good enough anymore.
- Cloud cred will matter.
- Cloud battles will showcase talent and advance best practices.
- Monkeys will go legit.
- Your company will survive a major cloud outage.
- You will finally have to budget for public cloud spend.