Trends For Cloud Service Providers and Traditional IT Vendors in 2012

Cloud Service Providers

• Emphasis on Cloud Security
• Governance and compliance will gain more visibility
• Emphasis on High Availability, stronger SLAs with better coverage for liabilities, managed support services, etc. Features like HA, Strong SLAs, etc. will become standard features in any infrastructure offering.
• Sales, delivery and support models to target larger SMB customers
• Cloud Computing Will Grow Quickly in China.
• North American Midsize Businesses Cite Cloud Intentions
• Cloud Investments Not a Priority for Majority of Enterprises” respectively
• The cloud storage market is also evolving rapidly.
• Amazon will extend its lead over others with the most comprehensive offering on IaaS – competitors will try to carve out their own niche.
• Microsoft will do just enough on office suite to keep competition at bay
• Increased integration among cloud offerings, network services and user devices.
• Explicit recognition of and support for federation of service elements among various cloud providers.

Traditional IT vendors

• Aggressive acquisition strategy by CA, VMware, Redhat, Dell, etc.
• Traditional webhosts repositioning themselves as cloud infrastructure providers
• Traditional enterprise collaboration vendors embracing clouds
• Virtualization is growing both within internal data centers

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