2012 will definitely be the year of the Cloud. The 'lets-watch and see' wagons are expected to join the Cloud caravan as they have now see organizations benefiting from the cloud and security fears also have been taken care of to a large extent. Here's my prediction for Cloud 2012:
- Hybrid cloud would become more popular among the organizations who want to contol their business critical applications but is open to go to the Cloud for the less critical solutions.
- Large enetrpises will still focus on private Clouds as they still crave for the control of their aplications and solutions.
- SMB will go to Public Cloud in large numbers as it offers them cost effective access to the technically advanced products which were earlier out of their reach.
- Cloud will kill the piracy industry to a large extent.
- Instead of standalone cloud poviders, those providing cloud based applications & solutions along with the service will rule the roost.
- 2012 will see a large scale adoption of Cloud, and will become the most sought after technology.
