What does 2024 hold for the Cloud?
2024 will be another year where businesses need to keep abreast of emerging IT technologies and data security. Skye Cloud are continually investing in new opportunities so that our clients can remain agile, innovative and safe in their IT space. Here are the top 10 predictions that we foresee businesses having more and more conversations about over for the coming year.
James Bishop, Managing Director
On behalf of the Skye Cloud team
1. Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Evolution
Hybrid and multi-cloud will continue to evolve and establish themselves as the new normal across all sizes of business. Dubbed n+1, these more dynamic public and private cloud environments consist of on-premise infrastructures together with bespoke hybrid cloud options to support specific in and OOO work environments. This way they ensure redundancy and vendor-agnostic solutions.
2. Juggling Multi-Cloud Conundrums
While we continue develop solutions to simplify multi-cloud setups, challenges will still exist throughout 2024 for IT departments. As businesses embrace shared clouds, applications and services, discretion is advised against packaged solutions that merely hide the complexities without genuinely streamlining them.
3. Leading with Edge Computing
In 2024, Edge computing has the potential to transform virtually every business sector with faster processing and lower costs at the heart of your data, reducing lag across IoT apps and other sensitive environments.
Skye Cloud offer seamless integration and solutions, liberating infinite uses across our client’s infrastructure.
4. Being Quantum Safe
The threat of data breaches will become even more sophisticated and a continual financial and time burden for businesses throughout 2024. In response to the potential threat of existing encryption methods, Cloud providers will introduce quantum safe encryption and security processes to protect business data from evolving quantum threats, whilst having control of quantum-resistant cryptographic solutions.
5. Compliance! Compliance! Compliance!
It’s not going away and should never be forgotten. Regulation around data privacy and security will become more complex, in the pursuit to protect personal data. As with other Cloud providers, Skye Cloud will intensify their compliance offering, helping their clients navigate complexity and stay up to date with global data privacy.
6. Sustainability
The elephant in the server room
As green issues continue to stay on the global agenda, Cloud providers will focus on investing in greener technologies to reduce not only theirs but their client’s carbon footprint. Innovations and the implementation of greener technology and data storage solutions will help make data centres more eco-friendly and in-turn align with a business’s sustainability values.
7. The Cloud Talent Drought
As more businesses adopt the Cloud as an essential utility the skills gap widens. Particularly recruiting for system and database administrators, AI experts and Cloud software engineers. With so many bespoke options available and the demand for workplace agility increasing, skills become harder to find and sustain. Therefore, a consistent and efficient IT environment will become more difficult to administer and maintain. Businesses may find they are searching in a small pool of independent specialists rather than a broad resource of multifaceted generalists.
8. Cloud First
By 2024, cloud adoption is predicted to transform from a disruptive technology to a business necessity* Pulumi.
Global spending on Cloud services is forecast to jump to $1 trillion by 2027. This staggering prediction underscores the ever-present importance of Cloud services giving businesses of all sizes their competitive edge as well as the agility to scale up or down.
9. Or AI First?
Despite AI grabbing all the headlines in 2023, it will not be the dominant trend in 2024. In fact it will be the technology that enables AI:Cloud. Cloud providers will continue to make it easier to manage data and more, enabling businesses to run AI, not as a gimmick, but as an efficient tool to aid innovation.
10. Disruption in the Private Cloud Market
Broadcom's recent acquisition of VMware, could be some cause for concern in the Private Cloud market. VMWare has historically been one of the most important contributors in the private cloud sector, so to loyal customers this is bound to create some anxiety. Organisations could be tempted to migrate to the upcoming market challengers such as Nutanix HCI or alternative vendor agnostic Cloud Service Providers, who have the skills available to manage the hybrid environments.
Source: Forbes. Datanami. ChannelE2E. ITPro
So, what does this mean for your business?
It’s safe to say the dynamic realm of cloud computing is on the brink of remarkable transformations in 2024. We as businesses and service providers should brace ourselves for a year characterised by innovation, challenges, and unprecedented opportunities.. Understanding what these predictions mean for your business will undoubtedly shape a successful path forward. The cloud computing journey goes forward once more and we can all be part of it.
About Skye Cloud
Skye Cloud set out in 2012 to be the go-to independent cloud services provider in the South East. Ten years later we are the fastest-growing independent cloud provider and exceptionally proud of our 96% client retention rate. We work across a whole range of different industries; telecoms clients such as Lebara mobile, global brands such as West Ham United and well over 35 UK charity organisations. We meet the challenges of these individual businesses by providing tailored solutions to match the predicted trends of the next 10 years.
Any Questions?
To understand how these predictions can be harnessed by your business, get in touch. We’d be happy to share our view and how we could help you.
