3 cloud trends to watch in the move toward Everything-as-a-Service.
Software-as-a-Service and the cloud revolution started a trend that has spread to nearly every corner of the IT world: from Desktop-as-a-Service to Infrastructure-as-a-Service to Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service to Platform-as-a-Service to much, much more. Let's look at three things to watch as the revolution unfolds.
A lot of functions have been moved to the cloud and other as-a-service offerings in recent years. It's natural that many companies are going to find the shortcomings and the unintended consequences of those moves. Issues of control, compliance, data sovereignty, and cybersecurity are leading some organizations to rethink or at least refine the way they work with these services. Look for case studies of companies that are on stage two, three, or more of their cloud journey to find best practices for next generation deployments.
Many of the companies that are now adapting their cloud strategy are moving to more of a hybrid cloud model, where they rent services, servers, apps, computing power, or storage in the cloud but keep certain strategic functions--or parts of them--in their own data centers. This is especially the case with data, which is of course, the most valuable commodity in most organizations. No matter how you use the cloud, take another look at your data strategy and compare it to the latest IT wisdom and best practices.
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