Now we have entered the end of 2020, and the popularity of cloud computing is also increasing. Cloud computing services similar to Huawei's cloud hosts have become a technology that every enterprise must use. Nearly 60% of North American enterprises now rely on public cloud platforms, which is five times as much as five years ago. Private cloud is also developing rapidly. Enterprises of all types not only transfer their workload to the top super large public cloud, but also create a powerful local cloud platform in their own data center by using the same open source software as the public cloud.
The report of Forrester, a research institution, pointed out that the cloud host industry has gone through "self centered adolescence" and become "the engine of global digital transformation". It predicts that by 2021, the cloud host industry will enter the "adult era", and it will introduce innovative development services into enterprise applications, rather than just providing cheaper temporary servers and storage. At the same time, Forrester pointed out that enterprises should pay attention to these tendencies in the coming December:
Trend 1: The company's virtual machine spending will increase significantly
This report predicts that with the digitalization of core business applications, the expenditure of enterprise cloud computing will increase significantly. Some will be replaced by new SaaS applications, and some will be refactored using new local cloud technologies (such as containers, Kubernetes, etc.).
Due to the expansion of the service catalog and the global scope, the largest public cloud provider camp will further expand in 2020, especially the six cloud computing giants: Alibaba, Amazon AWS, Google, IBM, Microsoft Azure and Oracle, who will all expand their scale before 2019. At the same time, the global cloud computing market, including cloud platforms, commercial services and SaaS, will exceed 200 billion dollars in 2020, with an increase of 20%.
It is conceivable that Alibaba will become another strong competitor in the cloud computing field in the future, and the six giants in the cloud computing field have far exceeded other competitors. No new cloud platform provider has the strength to pose serious challenges to the world's six major public cloud service providers.
Trend 2: core application transformation of container, Kubernetes (K8s) and serverless
Forrester predicts that container technology will continue to develop in 2020, and every cloud platform will change. EBay, ING, Liberty Mutual, Nordstrom, Viasat and other companies have established local cloud platforms around Docker and K8s, bringing new vitality to traditional applications.
With the support of cloud based local open source components and tools, Huawei's virtual machine will begin to launch its own digital application platform covering the cloud, including serverless and event driven services, and lay the foundation for the modernization of core business applications in the next decade. The most popular trend next year is that K8s will be easier to deploy, secure, monitor, expand and upgrade. It is expected that enterprise container platforms from Docker, IBM, Mesosphere, Pivot, Rancher, RedHat, VMware and other companies will develop rapidly.
After years of stagnant debate between private cloud and public cloud, enterprises should rethink how to turn their data center into a cloud computing engine. According to Forrester's research, every organization must choose the most suitable private cloud strategy.
In 2020, a larger private cloud architecture will emerge, and enterprises will face three basic private cloud paths: use vSphere to build developer centric tools and software defined infrastructure; Customizing the cloud environment using converged or hyper converged software stacks to reduce the technical burden; Or rely on skilled teams to build internal cloud infrastructure using OpenStack.
Trend 3: More organizations will develop their own PaaS strategies based on Huawei virtual machines
Forrester expects that each enterprise will decide whether to use the PaaS unique to Huawei's cloud host suppliers or concentrate on the cloud. Some companies will continue to look for opportunities for cloud computing, while patiently waiting for the maturity of relevant value-added services, so that cloud computing can be easier to operate anywhere, such as Istio, K8s and TensorFlow.
Trend 4: SaaS based systems will become increasingly popular
In 2020, SaaS manufacturers increased their integration efforts, such as Salesforce's acquisition of MuleSoft and Workday's decision to unlock and improve its platform, which highlighted this trend. The industry ecosystem based on SaaS will be formed in 2021, and its core is scalable SaaS applications. Enterprises will seek cloud computing platforms that can understand their own businesses and industries, from medical cloud to financial cloud, insurance cloud, etc.
Today, with the development of cloud computing, most companies can combine their applications and technologies with other more mature cloud services (such as the Internet of Things, databases, machine learning or container platforms) to achieve better integration within the enterprise. For the competition of enterprise cloud computing in the future, I believe that it is no longer the "cloud" at the infrastructure level, but how the cloud based on AI capabilities can penetrate into the enterprise business level and promote industrial transformation and upgrading.
