INTELLIGENT CLOUD
PREDICTIONS 2018
Kiss cloud
security
concerns
goodbye
In 2018, security will no longer
dominate discussions as hybrid,
analytics, artificial intelligence, and
orchestration move mainstream
says Kamal Anand at A10 Networks.
J
ust a few years ago, not many
predicted cloud computing would
reach the heights we have seen
in 2017. 79% of companies now run
workloads in the cloud, split almost
evenly between public and private clouds.
Who knew?
With the cloud bar constantly being
raised, where do we go from here?
For a look ahead into future cloud
trends, A10 switched on its flux capacitor
and revved its DeLorean time machine
to 88 miles per hour to see what’s ahead
in 2018:
The fight for
container
orchestration
dominance has
been one of the
cloud’s main
events for past
two years.
1. True hybrid clouds emerge
Hybrid cloud is all the buzz. The ability
for enterprises to have applications run
in different infrastructures – public
and private clouds and on-premise with
common orchestration and management
become the dominant mode in 2018, while
true hybrid clouds will start to emerge.
There are already key technology
developments and partnerships forming
to make this a reality. For example, Azure
and Azure Stack from Microsoft provide
a uniform set of infrastructure and API
capabilities across public and private
clouds; the partnership between VMware
and AWS; and the teaming up of Cisco and
Google. These mashups will create hybrid
clouds that truly blend environments
and further improve operational agility,
efficiency and scale.
Kubernetes dominates
container orchestration
tools – is enticing. Multi-cloud, with
different workloads running in different
clouds and being managed separately, will
The fight for container orchestration
dominance has been one of the cloud’s
main events for roughly the past two years.
The three-way battle between Docker
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