5 Ways the Cloud Will Change in 2012

“In 2011, cloud computing demonstrated that it was a major driver of change in the IT industry. Organizations of all types and sizes began using the hybrid cloud — a combination of public and private cloud computing — in earnest. What can we look forward to in 2012?”

As the New Year approaches and people begin to make (or in some cases, break) their resolutions, it is a good time for individuals to look back at the past year and try to predict and anticipate changes within their industry.

Matthew Lodge, a Senior Director in VMware's Cloud Services, answers this question in an article posted by Forbes and CNN.  Before you read the whole article, we took the time to summarize the main ideas:

• The hybrid cloud will continue to grow.
• More web developers will embrace PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service).
• There will be more major outages and each one will drive awareness of differences in service quality.
• The private cloud will grow bigger instead of go away.  
• Organizations will continue to assume that private clouds have impenetrable security protections.   

A new year's is about anticipating and making predictions.  We thank Mr. Lodge and our partner VMware for being bold enough to make one here, and invite you to read the entire article here!