This document discusses 10 cloud trends for 2017 and actions that can be taken. The trends include: 1) Enterprises using multiple public clouds like Azure and Google Cloud; 2) Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) converging; 3) Governance becoming more important; 4) Cloud security matching on-premises security; 5) Growing use of containers with orchestration tools; 6) Emergence of serverless computing via functions as a service (FaaS); 7) Slowing price cuts from cloud providers; 8) Opportunities to reduce cloud spending by 30-45%; 9) Lack of cloud expertise being a top challenge; 10) High demand
8. The distinctions between "infrastructure"
and "platform" are evaporating, leaving
these terms to collapse into a single
concept. The expected end state is a
converged service model, which we denote
as "converged IaaS and PaaS"
Trend #2: IaaS and PaaS Converge
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Source: Gartner, Market Trends:
The Convergence of IaaS and PaaS Cloud
9. Trend #2: IaaS and PaaS Converge
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Network
Container Service Relational DB Caching CDN
StorageCompute
Serverless NoSQL DB Hadoop Load Balancing
Workflow Queueing Data Migration Data Warehouse
Batch Search ETL API Management
Scheduler Directory Services Key Storage Web Firewall
Machine
Learning
Data
Analytics
IoT Mobile
IaaSComponentsDomains
Gaming
10. Trend #3: Governance is the New Black
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Cost
Security
Visibility
Policies
Compliance
11. Actions: Govern Any Cloud, Any Service
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Compute Storage Network Database
Built-In Integration Cloud Service Plug-Ins
AWS
Lambda
AWS
Batch
Google
Container
Engine
Azure
PaaS
and more…
Created by
• RightScale
• Customer
• 3rd party
Governance