The document discusses 6 trends that will shape cloud computing in 2017 according to Forrester Research. It summarizes that the global public cloud market will grow to $146 billion in 2017. IT executives will get better at controlling cloud costs as tools from cloud providers and other vendors mature. Companies will refactor existing applications to run on public clouds using migration services rather than just moving applications without changes. The rise of hyperconverged infrastructure will help organizations implement private clouds faster. Containers will be available on all major public and private clouds in 2017 to help developers manage code for cloud applications. More enterprises will host applications on AWS and other public clouds as CIOs become more comfortable with critical software in the public cloud.

1. Regional players complement
’mega cloud providers’
Cloud cost containment
Lift and shift those cloud apps
Hyperconverge your private cloud
There’s a container for that
Enterprise apps come to public cloud
6 trends
that will shape
Cloud computing
in 2017
Source : Forrester Research
The global public cloud market will top $146 billion in 2017,
up from just $87 billion in 2015 and is growing at a 22 percent
compound annual growth rate.
IT executives will get better at containing cloud costs in 2017
as their best practices mature. And cost management tools from the
likes of AWS, Cloudability and Cloudyn are available.
Companies refactor apps to run on public cloud systems, leveraging migration
services, rather than simply dumping existing apps into a public cloud.
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions promise to help, offering
preintegrated compute and storage resources that help organizations get their
cloud implementations running faster.
Containers enable developers to manage software code, particularly
software developed for cloud apps. Linux containers will be available in
every major public and private cloud platform by early 2017
Several companies are hosting enterprise applications in AWS, suggesting
that CIOs have become more comfortable hosting critical software in the
public cloud. You can expect this trend to continue as CIOs rely more heavily
on public cloud providers.
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