 IBM blog "Thoughts On Cloud", published an article on "5 things 2015 taught us about cloud".1. Containers are here to stay. Our first question sought to get the crowd’s opinion on the year’s biggest story. The consensus? Containers. While enterprises were beginning to test containers around this time last year, their usage is now ubiquitous across leading organizations and enterprises.
2. Next year may (finally) be the year of hybrid cloud.
It seems like every year for the past few years someone has declared it “The Year of Hybrid Cloud.” But are we really there? Has a hybrid approach become the norm? Are we well past “The Year of Hybrid Cloud,” or is it yet to come?
3. Cloud has evolved from a data security concern to a data security solution.
This year, the tech world witnessed some of the most highly publicized data breaches in history, but the cloud is rarely to blame, according to McGee. “Interestingly, most of the high profile security breaches involved internal non-cloud IT problems,” he wrote. “Enterprises are starting look to cloud to help with security given the rigorous processes and standardized environments.”
4. Open source foundations taught us that we all get along after all.
In the open technology space, 2015 saw the growth and increased adoption of OpenStack and Cloud Foundry. It also saw the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the Open Container Initiative, among others. Most recently, an open source Swift programming language was announced to developers’ delight.
5. More is expected of developers than ever before—and they’re delivering.
For many organizations, it’s not enough for developers to simply write code for an application (or part of an application) and be done with it. Developers are increasingly being asked to understand the full stack—and at least have a working knowledge of cloud computing.
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