2012 Cloud Predictions by James Staten of Forrestor

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:

  1. Shadow IT enters the light – deal with it.
  2. The uncool attempting to be cool – not cool.
  3. A risky idea lands a big fish in jail.
  4. Conservative leaders ban the cloud as unhealthy.
  5. The channel will face the music – reselling isn’t good enough anymore.
  6. Cloud cred will matter.
  7. Cloud battles will showcase talent and advance best practices.
  8. Monkeys will go legit.
  9. Your company will survive a major cloud outage.
  10. You will finally have to budget for public cloud spend.
Read the article for a great insight.