Top 5 Cloud trends we can look forward to in 2021

The World of Cloud Computing is poised to break the forecasted growth and vast adoption shall imperatively drive new trends of modernization and optimization on the Cloud. Since the outbreak of pandemic – COVID, the Cloud industry has seen new trends setting in with an increase focused towards security to support work from home and counting on modern Cloud offerings that allow businesses to build Cloud-native applications by leveraging current Data Center Investments and manage them centrally from a single pane on Cloud.

With the start of the new financial year, we are seeing more traditional business with existing Data Center deployments setting budgets to adopt Cloud for growing requirements, modernizing existing applications and purchasing ready to deploy Cloud services.

We will cover the TOP 5 Cloud Trends we can look forward to in 2021:

VDI’s on Cloud (Desktop as a service)

Traditional businesses have made large investments on purchasing Desktops or even Laptops for their people. However, the current situation has got them to re-think the investments in user devices as the IT teams are posed with unexpected challenges of having to set up the devices from their home, ship it to the user’s house, handling system crashes and replacing them are all the new challenges of today that IT is dreading to address.

Fully managed desktop offering from Cloud providers is marking the way to the future of desktops. IT teams are able to deploy and provide VDI’s on cloud in minutes the users are able to connect to their work machines on Cloud with a simple HTML browser. With built-in security, redundancy and scale. VDI’s on Cloud is trending and leading the way to modern workplace setup allowing users to work from anywhere, any device.

Increased Focus on Security

Ms. Jesintha Louis, Director – Partner Success & Cloud Solutions Specialist, G7 CR Technologies India Pvt Ltd

Security is anticipated to trend all along 2021 as more businesses take off on their digital journey and the impact of one security breach is such that it can threaten the existence of an organization. Click to deploy security monitoring and assessment tools on Cloud are gaining traction especially given that some of the Cloud offerings not only help in keeping the Cloud Environments secure but also come with the ability to extend to applications & deployments virtually anywhere. The availability of robust security software on the Cloud on a PAYG model has made securing the digital assets more affordable to a business of any size.

Application Modernization with Microservices

Businesses today thrive on speed, Microservices based architecture helps in facilitating faster development & release. Cloud-native container orchestrators deliver the scale & agility that today’s market demands. Cloud providers notch up the game by offering modern tools for DevOps and platforms to quickly develop and deliver Java and Steeltoe .NET Core apps using fully managed Spring Cloud components, including service discovery, configuration management and distributed tracing.

Hybrid Cloud Deployments

While most traditional businesses look to Cloud for scale, Hybrid Cloud deployments will stay in fashion this year. Hybrid is the best foot forward towards starting Cloud journey for businesses that have existing Data center investments. There is no point in adopting Cloud just because everyone else is, but Cloud providers are accelerating release & advancements of tools that allow businesses to build Cloud-native applications on Cloud and ship applications to any Kubernetes distributions in any location. In fact you can centrally manage your on-prem deployments from a single pane with some of the new service offerings from the Cloud providers. We can expect more businesses adopting these technologies to leverage their existing investments on Data center and also build modern application & deployments

Cognitive Services

Ready to consume Cognitive services are turning out to be the showstopper and a key Cloud trend driving more Cloud adoption. Be it the integration of modern B2C authentication for applications or using face recognition API for authentication or Vision API’s for advance image recognition or even Video analytics that is helping tons of businesses to address today’s challenges of social distancing, face mask detection etc. These services will definitely boost Cloud adoption and make Cloud Industry the most trending.

Author: Ms. Jesintha Louis, Director – Partner Success & Cloud Solutions Specialist, G7 CR Technologies India Pvt Ltd