Today, everyone in the IT industry knows one truth: when it comes to cloud computing and data center development trends, there is no such thing as the status quo, because their developments are not year-to-year or monthly changes, they seem to be happening every minute Variety.
According to a survey by the market research organization "Technology Business Research (TBR)", the market size of public cloud computing in 2010 was approximately US$20 billion. By 2020, this number is expected to reach nearly $170 billion. This incredible growth is driven by a number of trends, and it's not stopping anytime soon. However, the drivers of this growth are shifting.
As the market matures, enterprises continue to look for new ways to leverage cloud computing to improve their business. Based on information and feedback received from customers, the following provides some new developments and changes that the cloud computing and data center market may see in 2018.
Against Overprovisioning
Most businesses believe that their internal resources are overprovisioned to some extent, but they may not be fully aware of the impact. In fact, a recent study by research firm TSO Logic found that more than 80% of workloads are overprovisioned by 30%.
In traditional data centers and most enterprises, enterprises still use a capacity-based model. They try to predict how much capacity will be needed in the coming years, but such predictions are often inaccurate. New tools can provide a clearer picture of real-world consumption and drive more accurate forecasts, but why make capital investments in the first place? The biggest benefit of cloud computing is consumption-based pricing flexibility: Businesses only pay for what they need now , and then scale up when more is needed.
Hope organizations can identify and move applications that are currently suitable for cloud platforms and then modernize the applications to take advantage of more cloud-native services.
The cost of cloud computing will continue to fall
People may already know that the performance of cloud computing is getting better and better. However, people may not realize how much profit can be made now.
What’s driving the steady decline in cloud computing pricing? It’s a perfect storm of better technology, greater efficiency, and greater economies of scale, all of which are creating opportunities for large-scale cloud computing providers and its customers create a virtuous cycle.
First, consider the continued advancements in hardware processing power and efficiency. In short, Intel's single-core processors today can handle workloads that required dual-core processors just a few years ago. Of course, there's nothing stopping businesses from deploying the latest hardware, but it's a major undertaking that most businesses only attempt every few years. Large cloud computing providers constantly update their hardware and always have the latest and greatest technology. In many cases, they are working directly with chip manufacturers to create custom templates to meet their needs in the most efficient way.
License portability brings additional cost savings
One misconception about enterprises migrating their business to the public cloud is that the enterprise's business in the cloud cannot carry and use existing licenses certificate. Enterprises need to obtain new licenses for the instances being migrated and accept any discounts or special Enterprise Agreement pricing received for the current license agreement.
This may have been the case in the past, but in the modern public cloud, many software licenses are very portable and can have a significant impact on the total cost of ownership projections for a cloud migration. If an enterprise does have portable licenses and discounts, and these figures are not factored into the enterprise's cost calculations, significant potential cost savings may be lost. In some cases, it can cost an enterprise 80% less to import its own licenses into the cloud than to re-obtain them from the cloud provider.
Application Optimization Drives Change
With the rapid development of cloud adoption, the biggest changes for traditional enterprises are mostly limited to infrastructure construction. After all, the vast majority of cloud computing use cases are still Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In 2018, more and more enterprises are looking to make more use of cloud computing and increasing their adoption of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions.
When it comes to writing and managing applications, most enterprises are still doing things the same way they have for years. Just as enterprises are increasingly willing to hand over most of their day-to-day infrastructure tasks to cloud providers, they will soon hand over their day-to-day application maintenance as well. With PaaS solutions, enterprises will begin to move their on-premises applications such as SQL Server and instead use cloud computing database-as-a-service (DaaS) platforms such as RDS or Aurora. When businesses are no longer responsible for managing a comprehensive database infrastructure, the operational savings can be significant.
Cloud computing services gain more stickiness
The shift described above to outsource more functions and application components to cloud computing providers may have an important side effect: the cloud Computing services will become even stickier than they are today.
If an enterprise uses the public cloud as a basic IaaS platform, moving from one provider to another does not make a big difference, and the organization can choose the provider based on its pricing. When an enterprise builds an application to take advantage of a specific provider's unique computing capabilities or on-premises platform, then the cost of migration becomes higher, but the enterprise can build, scale, and manage faster. And the cost savings realized from more advanced cloud computing services may still be significant and cannot be ignored.
Redefining IT’s Value Proposition
If there is one thing that today’s fastest-growing global enterprises have in common, it is their focus on driving unique value that will cost them their time and Funding to achieve something different from others. Expect to see more businesses focus on where they really drive value in 2018 and realign resources towards these activities.
In the past, even if the enterprise was not a "tech" company and its core business was not operating and maintaining large server infrastructure, there was no better choice. Today, this is no longer the case. Many IT tasks that businesses spend millions of dollars on can now be handled more efficiently and at a lower cost by using the services of large-scale cloud computing providers.
Cloud migration is not a once and for all event
I hope that in 2018 more companies will realize that cloud migration is not a one-time project. Cloud computing capabilities, technology, and pricing are constantly evolving. For example, an enterprise's best choice for a given workload in February may only be the third, fourth, or fifth best choice in June.
If an enterprise only analyzes its cloud computing options every few years, the cost savings may only be apparent. Particularly as financial stakeholders are involved in cloud decisions within the enterprise, hopefully more organizations will begin to implement cloud analytics as an ongoing activity.
This represents a significant change in the way organizations understand and invest in their IT footprint. However, like other cloud computing trends that are expected to emerge in the coming year, this is a good strategic move for most enterprises, and the ongoing cost savings will outweigh the effort.