The virtual hosting platform continues to grow, and as we build up to a boom in the cloud market, here are some possible trends as discussed with senior editor and writer, David Hakala.
David Hakala is an expert writer who takes a professional perspective on virtual hosting. He believes it to be similar to the weather – unpredictable and ever changing. The ways of the cloud have not yet been deciphered, so it’s hard to say exactly what will happen in the future. Some experts are expecting the virtual hosting market to boom very soon, in the next few years to come. Although cloud computing is currently undefined, there are some things that David’s business knowledge has led him to believe to be apparent very soon.
- Private clouds for large organisations – IBM already announced the Blue Cloud initiative a few years ago, and other large enterprises will soon be jumping on this bandwagon. Virtual Private Servers can be managed by third party providers, but a possible trend could be private datacenters managed and owned by the enterprise. This could also be a path that government agencies could take in order to ensure absolutely flawless data security.
- Smaller IT departments – does virtual hosting mean that the IT profession is over? Not at all. Computation professionals are trained to make the most of new technology and should have the capacity to adapt to new ways of working. Information Technology is ever changing, always growing and developing, and anyone who works in IT should be prepared to shift their skills. Coding and development could take a back seat and there will be more focus on project management, quality assurance and business analysis. But IT departments will become smaller in most companies when virtual hosting is implemented. In
- Product bundles – virtualisation is going to huge in the next few years, and the bigger it gets the more collaboration we’ll see. According to David Hakala’s predictions, SaaS vendors will create lucrative partnerships with other professional services to offer something that is optimized to benefit the client.
- Customisable clouds – offerings by virtual hosting vendors are currently modelled in a standard formula, which can limit cloud computing in certain areas. The future could see a cloud that is customisable by end users.
- Innovation for the environment – the cost savings made by companies who choose the cloud are measurable. Numbers provide solid evidence that energy costs can be reduced and this directly reflects on the reduction in energy consumption.
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