The next expansion for clouds

The 4th International Conference and Exhibition, Cloud Slam’12, is slated for May 30 – June 1, 2012 in San Francisco, California. We have no doubt that clouds will play a major role the way we store data in the future.

However, there is very limited effort at the time for globalization of clouds. It is any ones guess who will lead the field. It is anticipated that telecom giants are primed to take the lead. Telecoms such as AT&T, Verizon, BT Global Services and others are in discussions with third- party data centers and public cloud services.

Telecom services see the opportunity that clouds could contribute to their bottom line. They may not want to let it go and would like to keep their hands on any new development. They see the expansion opportunities in retail, software and other business models.

Industry is leading towards what is known as “everything-as-a-service (EaaS). This can be seen in Verizon’s recent efforts.

It is somewhat difficult to read the tea leaves at this early stage. But cloud is here to stay. The global spread of clouds will continue to benefit the customer, enhance the IT services, support new cutting-edge computing and promote affordable businesses.