What changes await the clouds in 2020

Many experts believe that cloud cover will be in great demand. But Paul Dix, the co-founder of InfluxData, is not so sure. He believes that the work necessary to create such a system will not be attractive, especially for consumers of corporate technology.

“I think in 2020, corporate tech customers will finally realize that a multi-cloud strategy is futile,” said Dicks. “Implementing it requires enormous effort and significantly increases complexity due to the creation of systems that can switch between different public clouds for the sake of rather modest advantages in the form of insurance in case of an accident or lack of binding to a specific provider.”

According to him, accident insurance simply does not make sense for technical customers, as long-term outages for large cloud providers, which might require transferring operations to another cloud, practically do not occur. As for the lack of binding to the provider, for the end user everything turns out to be an additional cost for creating the same system in several clouds compared to creating it in the selected cloud and possibly transferring it to another cloud if the terms of the contract or operation deteriorate.

Open Source Companies Monetize Clouds

If the concept of multi-cloud may not be able to serve as the driving force that some consider it, then cloud services are the main way to make money in the open source software market.

This opinion is shared by InfluxData CEO Ewen Kaplan: “The coming year will show that cloud applications are a winning monetization strategy for companies creating open source software.”

Cloud Security Approaches to Change

Security is always a concern, and the clouds, of course, are no exception. But what about the data generated in the security process?

“I expect new approaches to collecting data related to data security may appear in the clouds,” said Steve Cohen, Synopsys’s security services manager. - In addition to application logs, access to the cloud API will be required. In addition, over the coming year, increased emphasis will be placed on centralized journaling. In addition to application security features, the cloud control panel will become an additional level of security that will need to be created in 2020.