Top 10--Cloud's Transformational Impacts in 2013

Did you read the interesting insight Top 10 Transformational Impacts of the Cloud in 2013 delivered by the tech major NJVC?

Here are the top 10:

1. Cloud technologies will converge.

2. Custom software will hit the cloud.

3. Integration will become the new “killer app.”

4. India and outsourcing countries will drive industry adoption of PaaS worldwide.

5. Major data centers will go undergo a “survival-of-the-fittest” scenario.

6. Health IT will adopt PaaS to replace niche “dinosaur” apps.

7. Organizations will rapidly adopt cloud services brokerages.

8. The U.S. government will re-think major IT contracts.

9. Innovation and entrepreneurship will hit overdrive.

10. Cloud adoption will move from an option to a "must have."


Read the whole report for a better insight.

Differentiate Business and Tech Need

Did you adopt Cloud because Business dictated it or was it a technology requirement and decision? If it is the former, then the approach might lead to a potential failure. The reason being that such cloud initiatves moved with no clear requirements or metrics to measure the objectives or a strategy to keep in pace with the technological need of the organization.

Cloud calls for a paradigm shift from legacy to the latest. It calls for a different approach to procure, deploy, monitor, manage and control IT.

It is important to remember that Cloud should not be a standalone decision of Business or Tech, rather it would be a joint approach and decision so as to seamlessly integarte the technological need with the business objectives of the organization.

Cloud Workforce Challenge

Organizations are adopting cloud at a good pace. But the challenge is finding the appropriate and experienced people in the cloud domain. No wondor finding a cloud professional seems to be a challenge for the HR.

But one thing organizations need to keep in mind is that cloud is a new tech so obviously finding the appropriate professional for the role would be challenge at least for the next two years. Hence, in this scenario it would make sense for the organizations to hitch their cloud wagon with some experienced vendor. Or if you want to do it on your own, better train your own workforce and take them to next level of cloud competent professional.

Build Your Cloud Strategy before adopting

Recently, I have been seeing reports of a number of companies facing issues with Cloud. Upon closer inspection, it seems that those companies seemed to have adopted Cloud without really having a strategy or planning out the Cloud roadmap.

The main reason being that it is easy to adopt Cloud nowadays-- just go on the web, search for a vendor and pay!! Bingo, you are on Cloud!!

But you seem to be missing the basic tenet of management-- have a plan, have a strategy!! Without a plan or a srategy you will end up in a mess. Remember Cloud gives you easy access to tech and apps, but it's not magic wand to take care of your unknown issues.

So plan, build a stratgey and then adopt Cloud!! And then you will see the magic of Cloud 

BaaS for Mobile apps developers

BaaS or Backend as a Service has come as boon for the mobile app development industry. The mobile developer and organizations are extremely skilled in creating or developing customer facing interfaces, but the back-end becomes a challenge for them.

BaaS can potentially take care of all the back-end infrastructure requirements of the mobile apps industry, and enable the organizations to focus on their core skill. Interestingly, back-end-as-a-service not only gives you the flexibility and scalability but also provides you with an integration platform into the existing enterprise services.

This Cloud service has captured a niche market, and is exciting enough to make a large number of vendors add it to their lists of growing Cloud offerings.

Manage Your Cloud Access with Simple Cloud Identity Management

Identity Management is a big task for the Cloud solution providers. Currently out of the 4 As (authentication, authorization, account management and audit logging) of Identity Management, Authentication is only usually used to provide access to cloud solutions. So for enterprises it is a big challenge to determine which standard protocol to use to create/delete/control/manage cloud identities.

The Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM) protocol seems to be ideal for Cloud identity management. It reportedly enables smooth integration and also easy to develop, and is based on strong authentication, authorization, and privacy principles.

Please do share your experiences with Simple Cloud Identity Management!

The recent Gartner forecasts show that Cloud is on a high in India. Here are the pointers of the report:

 

• The public cloud services market predicted to grow at 32.4 percent in 2012 to total US$ 326.2 million.
• Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the largest segment, and is expected to grow to US$ 115.6 million in 2012.

• Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is expected to grow from US$ 35.2 million in 2011 to US$ 42.7 million in 2012.
• BpaaS (business process-as-a-service) is expected to grow to US$ 112.1 million in 2012 from US$ 90.3 million in 2011.
• By 2016, cloud computing services will become the largest single segment within the public cloud services market in India, growing to US$ 140.8 million, and accounting for about 14 percent of total public cloud services spending.