Recently, as a world-renowned analysis organization, Gartner has given its own predictions for the cloud computing market in 2021.
The development trend of the cloud computing field in the next year is introduced in detail, as follows:
1. The epidemic has led to rapid expansion of cloud computing
According to forecasts by Forrester Research, as the cloud continues to occupy a "central position" in the recovery of the pandemic, the global public cloud infrastructure market will grow by 35% by 2021, reaching US$120 billion.
Sid Nag, vice president of research at Gartner, said in a report this week: "The pandemic confirms the value proposition of the cloud."
"The ability to use an on-demand, scalable cloud model to achieve cost-efficiency and business continuity provides an impetus for organizations to quickly advance their digital business transformation plans. The increase in the use of public cloud services makes cloud adoption more than ever Become the "new normal"."
2. Alibaba Cloud enters the world's top three
In 2021, the top three public cloud providers will undergo a reorganization, and China’s Alibaba Cloud will replace Google Cloud and become the third largest public cloud infrastructure market in terms of revenue.
According to Forrester, Alibaba Cloud will be second only to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.
For the quarter ended September 30, Alibaba Cloud’s cloud computing revenue increased by 59% year-on-year to US$2.19 billion, thanks to the accelerated development of digitalization in various industries in China. Revenues from customers in the Internet, finance and retail industries are the main growth drivers.
3. Edge computing becomes the new cloud
According to forecasts, edge computing will become the new cloud, and new edge providers will cut 5% of public cloud growth next year.
"In 2021, we will see new business models that will promote edge deployment, cloud platform competition efforts, and AI and 5G to promote the expansion of edge use cases," Forrester said.
According to Forrester, large vendors including Dell, HPE, IBM, and Intel are doubling their marginalization through cloud-like solutions that can be deployed anywhere, and content delivery network and data center hosting providers are in the hundreds or even more. Thousands of local locations provide edge computing services. exist.
4.AI empowerment can make the cloud smarter
Gartner said: "Without AI, most organizations will not be able to move real AI projects from proof-of-concept and prototypes to full-scale production."
According to Gartner, the use of AI technology will make the cloud smarter and help more companies achieve digital transformation.
5. Public cloud vendors will unite with more vendors
Next year, as cloud providers and vendors realize that they can work together to speed up the listing process, take advantage of each other and "occupy the 800-pound gorilla" AWS, they will see the development of cloud products from public cloud vendors and joint providers Start.
Competitors Microsoft and Oracle announced last year that they are connecting the clouds to allow mutual customers to migrate and run their enterprise application workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft (the second-ranked cloud provider) and Redwood City, California-based cloud service provider Oracle (Oracle) bid for this move to better compete with AWS.
6. Go serverless
Derek Swanson, chief technology officer of Silk, headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts, said serverless is the next step in monolithic application architecture. The company's cloud data platform enables the company to adopt hybrid clouds.
Serverless is a true cloud computing paradigm, and it is difficult to overestimate how much cloud consumption it will affect. This is a compelling model. In the future, applications will be designed and developed to work with serverless instead of developing serverless to work with the way we currently develop applications.
7. Automated cloud orchestration and optimization
Park said that the cloud platform will continue to develop automated cloud orchestration and optimization as the complexity of the number and quality of interconnected services across applications and services has overwhelmed even the most savvy IT organizations.
Parker said: "Automated service and performance management must become one of the most important aspects of choosing a cloud provider in 2021, because the company may have to manage more services from a single cloud provider."
8. Growth in SASE adoption
According to Derek, the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is at the peak of Gartner's Hype Cycle, and it will continue to be adopted as companies will abandon the rapid response measures they have developed this year to enable remote workers The massive and unexpected growth of connections. Brost, Director of InterVision Security and Compliance Professional Services.
SASE is called "sassy" and is mainly provided as a cloud-based service. It is a network architecture that combines software-defined WAN functions and cloud-native network security services, including zero-trust network access, secure web gateway, and cloud access security Proxy and firewall as services.
9. Data Security
The security strategy for mobile data uses a software-defined boundary as an example. The boundary uses encryption to coordinate public key access while briefly opening a secure UDP port to build application-level connections. The automated function of the container platform solves the problem of multi-cloud access.
As a result, the organization has adopted a compelling way to describe various cloud computing vendors or various cloud computing strategies in an automated way.
10. Increasing cloud management and cost challenges
For many companies, shifting workloads to the cloud can greatly improve some operational efficiency and collaboration, but it turns out that this is costly.
Compared with the way customers use traditional legacy infrastructure, customers are still too immature in terms of skills and use their cloud infrastructure in an inefficient way. In fact, cloud waste is a problem that hinders cloud adoption. Operational efficiency is still too high, customers do not see the cost curve down, but maintain a 1:1 ratio.
In addition to cloud waste, system platform and management vendors also hope to be related to the rapidly growing cloud computing market. They understand that managing and operating cloud computing is a new operational paradigm and requires new platforms and tools.
Although many new companies are fully committed to cloud cost control, because vendors want to make their products more attractive with built-in cloud efficiency and cost management elements, they want to integrate and extend these tools into the production application stack.
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