Source: Datamation
Despite a dismal economy, analysts continue to be bullish on cloud computing. A few recent studies project continued momentum for cloud computing, which according to IDC, should soon “reach 12% of the size of traditional IT product spending, [while representing] over 25% of the net-new growth in traditional IT products.” IDC predicts that worldwide revenue from public IT cloud services, which exceeded $16 billion in 2009, will grow to nearly $56 billion in 2014.
According to AMI-Partners’ World Wide Cloud Services Study, adoption among SMBs will be even more impressive. SMBs worldwide will spend more than $95 billion on cloud-related products and services (both public and private) by 2014. SMBs are already rapidly moving to the cloud, with CRM, payroll, accounting/financials and web-conferencing applications leading the way.
While there is no doubt that cloud computing will continue to grow, can we safely say that it is a mature technology?
One sign of maturity for newly adopted technologies is an outgrowth of innovation. By this I don’t mean that technologies require constant innovation in order to be considered mature; rather, once a technology has passed a certain tipping point, innovators begin tinkering at the margins.
New problems emerge as adoption spikes, and, obviously, new solutions are needed to address them. Meanwhile, radically unexpected use cases spring up to take advantage of the technology -- in ways never envisioned in the early adopter phase.
Here are seven of those innovations.
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