While cloud computing has greatly benefited businesses in terms of cost-savings and increased efficiency, it has also given CIOs a larger role within organizations and provides IT professionals with one of the most valuable job skills.
The rate of private cloud adoption has been gaining momentum as many users prefer to settle for more secure and flexible solutions offered by cloud service providers.
The cloud has grown rapidly over the past few years, with more companies then ever deploying cloud models. Still there is the lingering question of whether the private or public enterprise cloud will be the dominant deployment.
Tech-savvy employees are often ahead of the technology curve compared with their employers. Equipped with everything from mobile devices to their own personal clouds, these productive workers are helping to push businesses toward cloud adoption.
While government IT hasn’t received the positive attention it was hoping for over the past month due to the troubled launch of HealthCare.gov, that hasn’t put a damper on continued IT investments in both private and public cloud computing.
As the cloud-related skills gap widens, cloud service providers will play a larger role in providing effective solutions.
Amazon maintains a great deal of pride in its public cloud platform, Amazon Web Services. The company stated earlier this year that AWS has unique benefits over private clouds including lower costs, rapid deployment and pay-as-you-go-models. However, each of these advantages also pertain to private platforms as well.
Private cloud platforms are beginning to gain ground in the marketplace due to its enhanced security, as well as a more long-term ability for IT to both support and drive business operations, innovation and growth.
Cloud computing has afforded businesses with more agility, streamlined processes and lower IT costs. With no signs of slowing down, the cloud is poised to make its presence known for businesses that have not yet made the decision to adopt it.
An industry analysis by Gartner foresees the year of 2016 to be a defining moment for the cloud and cloud service providers as they continue to prove their value to businesses and IT professionals.
