Cloud computing is a new phase, businesses told
Cloud computing is a new phase, businesses told
Businesses have been told that rather than being a fad, cloud computing is in fact a whole new phase of IT.
Graeme Philipson, Connection Research founder and research director, made this point at a special round table that formed part of Trend Micro's recent Cloud Solutions for SMEs reseller event in Sydney, ARN reported.
Mr Philipson explained: “Cloud computing is not a new concept, technology or product, it’s simply the culmination of a dozen trends such as growth of bandwidth and mobility to form this thing called cloud computing.”
The comments follow research from IDC which predicted that by 2015, public cloud services will account for 46 per cent of net new growth in overall IT spending on applications, systems infrastructure software, application development and deployment, and basic storage and servers.
In fact, spending on public cloud computing services is set to grow to $72.9 billion over the next four years, up from just $21.5 billion in 2010.
Tina Su, Trend Micro's Asia-Pacific product marketing manager, noted that the increase in spending has coincided with the diversification of companies interested in the cloud. Whereas five or six years ago just the larger companies were discussing the cloud, now small and medium-sized enterprises are keen to reap the benefits.
“Small businesses and consumers alike are looking to the cloud, what is it, and how it's going to benefit them,” ARN reported Ms Su as stating at the round table.
Businesses that are keen to follow the trend and move their IT systems to the cloud will need to consider their hardware and networks first. A secure fast network is required to get the most from the solution and there are also a range of security issues that companies will need to assess when shifting their IT systems across.
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