Cloud computing to be teenaged in 2012

BANGALORE, INDIA: The year 2012 will see cloud computing technology move past its toddler years and enter the 'awkward teenage years', where it would 'fight for its own identity, independence and place in society', and in turn push infrastructure and operations professionals well outside of their comfort zone.

Forrester Research analyst James Staten laid out his 'Top 10 cloud predictions for 2012', where he states, 'cloud computing won’t play out exactly like client-server or the Internet era did, but there are strong similarities and the early years were the most painful.'

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He notes that cloud technologies matured almost across the board similar to transparency, security and best practice use and adoption

He asks users to build cloud services that are 'highly standardized and have automated capabilities delivering economies of scale, autonomy to the client and flexible cost control' or else get ready to lose.

Moreover, he adds, "As we enter 2012 there are far more job openings for cloud experts than there are qualified candidates to fill them and in 2012 this will become perhaps the biggest market growth inhibitor".

He warns that outages are bound to happen, but on the flip he also adds that there are more chances that companies will survive a major cloud outage next year. So 'The sooner you learn to deal with cloud outages the better off you will be'.

And just like how humans learn and mature after going through the trials and tribulations of teen years, cloud computing too will emerge stronger and capable on the other side.