Cloud Technology Trends: 2022 And Beyond

Every industry is undergoing massive transformations and the year 2020-2021 has been pivotal years that have witnessed an accelerated adoption of digital transformation technologies. Sure, the pandemic had a major role, and clearly, the theme of ‘compute anywhere, data anywhere’ is becoming the norm where businesses and consumers alike are openly adopting cloud technologies. It was also a period that transformed the cloud into an essential IT component that has the capacity to scale the existing processes to a new level. As we progress into 2022, cloud technologies are evolving themselves with new capabilities, for organizations of all sizes, while earning its benefits. 

How much is too much?

As businesses rely on the greater power of cloud technologies, it is essential to approach it with greater responsibility. It has to be agreed that 2020 facilitated remote work and has been a pivotal year of the cloud. While some businesses re-strategize their technological processes to incorporate some cloud components others went over and beyond to rebuild intelligent solutions with the help of the cloud. As much as the scope of cloud technologies is vast, the past couple of years saw a variety of nomenclature for cloud and basking in the spotlight as no other technological innovation had. As cloud in its various as-a-service model continues to evolve and provides the scale and reliability of services needed, it is important for businesses to adopt pragmatic cloud blueprints that enable their businesses to scale and increase its customers experience while ensuring adoption of CloudOps/FinOps methodologies to orchestrate right behaviors and keep the unbridled cost in check.

Containerization: Packaged for Cloud

Enabling the entire theme of “Compute Anywhere”, Containerization has emerged as an important strategy choice and cloud providers/independent software vendors have managed solutions that enable business applications to be containerized and hosted anywhere. To draw parallels with low-code technology, containerization is the go-to approach that makes a process significantly easier with ‘write once and run anywhere’ simplicity. Amplifying the efficiency of cloud technology with faster development time, fault identification and isolation, simplified security, and ease of management, 2022 and the years ahead will witness more containerization technology.

End-user vs providers

In a world where businesses and consumers alike are connected digitally, the increased use of edge computing/IoT is enabling businesses to orchestrate newer user experiences and journeys that endears a business to its users. Presently, many businesses utilize these features to provide an empowered user experience that accommodates a variety of use cases. For example, many car manufacturers are enabling car telematics that allows their users to sign up for these services and enables predictive maintenance of their cars along with personalized car insurances based on the person’s driving behaviors. Therefore, it is not just standard insurance for all in the future but a personalized one to suit the requirements based on cloud technologies that offer the flexibility of localization to serve the end-user. Although the cloud landscape seems to be dominated by solution providers, the industry is becoming sensitive to cloud migration. As the concept of ‘compute anywhere data anywhere’ takes its roots, there are three significant points that businesses need to take care of while adopting a cloud strategy.

The 3-part Cloud adoption

The coming years will see the demand for Cloud technologies getting higher and businesses must adopt a pragmatic cloud blueprint that embodies the right security posture, user journeys, and CloudOps/FinOps model to ensure a secure and scalable business ecosystem. This could be followed by leveraging the right data strategy to enable elevated customer experience through the adoption of Data sciences and engineering principles. The final approach would include creating a connected experience where applicable by embracing IOT and connected communications. 

The Way Forward

Digital transformation is here to stay and the demand for cloud and associated services are only going to scale exponentially. The capabilities of cloud technologies confirm that it is here to stay. As more organizations embrace the power, it is also critical that a culture shift is also addressed in line with this evolution. Although the timeframe for every business to go cloud-first might be different, it is critical for businesses to adopt a strategy that allows them to create elevated customer experiences with efficient cloud models that aligns the results to the business goals.