I was very interested to see IDC’s blog recently talk about the types of applications, workloads and services that are expected to move to the cloud, as this was essentially the final question that was asked in my recent cloud survey.
It was particularly nice to see both sets of results reinforce each other in that web applications (including business applications) were rapidly moving to the cloud. My results show that the top two workloads expected in the cloud are: 1) application test and dev; and 2) large scale website handling load spikes. Here’s the chart:
What do you think? Does this jive with the types of workloads your are seeing or expect to see on your cloud infrastructure?
About Joshua Beil
Joshua Beil (@joshbeil) is the Director of Market Strategy and Research for Parallels, the leading provider of automation and virtualization software to the web hosting community. Previously, Josh was the Director of Social Media & Technology at a Level 3 Communications [Nasdaq: LVLT] where he provided strategic and tactical sales support. Before that, Josh was CEO and cofounder of Skywave Broadband, Inc, the largest commercial WiFi service provider in Hawaii. He was named one of Pacific Business News' Forty Under 40 for 2006, and in 2005, he was named a High Tech Leader by the Pacific Technology Foundation. Before co-founding Skywave, Mr. Beil was VP of Research and Development for the market research boutique, Tier 1 Research, where he covered the Internet infrastructure sector as an analyst, and negotiated and sold subscriptions to Tier 1's research services. Josh has also previously served as the Senior Analyst for Exodus Communications as well as the internationally known market research firm, IDC. He holds a Certificate in E-Business from UCSC Extension, and he graduated with honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a major in Psychology.
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