CLOUD COMPUTING
FEDERAL GOVT: Why the U.S. Government Finally Loves Cloud Computing. U.S. government agencies are moving to cloud computing and away from their own data centers faster than private corporations, according to several integrators and tech companies in both sectors. Apparently, the Obama Administration’s “Cloud First Initiative” announced five years ago is finally kicking in. Read more
[FORTUNE.COM]
CHARTS: The Cloud Computing Industry is Getting Huge, Decimating Sales of On-Premise Servers. According to research firm Forrester, public-cloud services will grow at a compounded annual rate of 22 percent between 2015 and 2020, reaching $236 billion. Find out more
[GEEKWIRE.COM]
EMPLOYMENT: Cloud Computing Brings Big Centers But Few Jobs to Small Towns. A giant Microsoft facility just outside Boydton, VA hides behind a quarter-mile berm and a guard house, across the highway from the rubble of a demolished prison. Behind the berm, six unmarked hangars each hold tens of thousands of computer servers. Microsoft has cleared enough scrub trees and vines for at least 15 of these buildings, and six more are under construction. One thing there isn’t much of at this Microsoft complex, one single computer data center, is long-term work. Microsoft says it might have “several dozen” employees in a place like this. They are mostly elite computer workers who tend not to come from Boydton, which lost a lot of good jobs when nearby factories closed and the prison shut down. Read more
[SFGATE.COM]
PREDICTION: 60% of Workloads Running in Cloud by 2018 – and the Rise of Cloud-First. According to the latest forecast from 451 Research, three in five enterprise workloads will run in the cloud by mid-2018, up from two in five (41%) today. The analyst firm argues there will be strong growth in particular enterprise workload categories, including data and analytics and business applications. In the same timeframe, almost a quarter (23%) of enterprise workloads will be software as a service (SaaS), compared to 12% for IaaS. 451 argues that IaaS will be the highest growing segment, and despite the ‘hype and attention’ associated with it comprises only 6% of workloads today. Find out more
[CLOUDCOMPUTING-NEWS.COM]
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