CA Tech predicts: Every company can become a service provider

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"The cloud computing market is causing a big shift in business models, where every company can fundamentally become a service provider," said Anna Gong (pictured), CA Technologies’ vice president of cloud, virtualization and service automation, Asia Pacific.

In an interview with Asia Cloud Forum, Gong shares her eight predictions about cloud computing development trends in 2012, her key lessons learnt in 2011 and why she sees Amazon Web Services the "top cloud solution provider" today.

Asia Cloud Forum: What were your three most important lessons learnt about cloud computing in 2011?

Anna Gong: The lessons learnt in 2011 are:

1. Not everyone in Asia Pacific is on x86, supporting other hypervisor platforms was a must in being a cloud solution provider;


2. Without use cases, blueprints, architectural experts to help build cloud is a waste of time for the vendor, customer, and/partner;


3. Many service providers did not know how or where to start building a business model to address go-to-market strategy and rarely do any of them have an architectural blueprint to build a cloud infrastructure; and


4. Vendors can be, innovatively, 12 to 24 months ahead of various Asia Pacific markets, thus private cloud adoption  has been slower to realize.

Where will cloud computing head towards in 2012?

Gong: My predictions for cloud computing are:

1. Consumerization of IT will accelerate the use of multi-devices anywhere for anything;


2. There will be a few major security breaches that will cause the industry to adopt a standard for data protection and sovereignty;


3. There will be continuous shortage of cloud IT skills/talent;


4. The cloud market is causing a big shift in business models, where every company can fundamentally become a service provider;


5. Enterprises will continue to grow the private cloud market. After further consolidation and virtualization, the even more complex infrastructures will require better execution in integration and cloud deployments, especially around converging processes and application workloads;


6. The convergence of mobile, cloud services, and social media will create more entrepreneurship and even more technology vendors;


7. APJ (Asia Pacific and Japan) will be one of the fastest cloud markets and adoption will accelerated in this region fueled by the large population of mobile and social media users;


8. The complex world of cloud will increase the demand for cloud system and application integrators.

Other than your company’s, what do you see as the most impressive cloud solution or product or deployment found in the market in 2011?

Gong: There are many cloud technology and service providers for every addressable market. There are cloud management companies, solution providers that can serve IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, cloud security, cloud enablers, cloud system integrators, and more.

Many vendors have gone through their challenges and successes. However, if I were to pick a top cloud solution, I would pick Amazon Web Services as the top cloud solution provider because of their breadth of offerings and constant innovations, such as cloud computing, IaaS, storage, databases, monitoring, content delivery, payment services, etc... by offering these services better, faster, and more scalable covering a broad addressable market of start-ups, consumers, and enterprises.

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