Tech trends: Cloud computing as the ‘King of the IT Jungle’

Digital transformation rapidly accelerated with the advent of Covid-19. Most companies embraced remote working to curb spread of the virus, thus making cloud computing the ‘King of the IT jungle.’ Virtual transactions were fast adopted in 2020 to mitigate effects that resulted from lock down and cessation of movement government-sanctioned orders.

Cloud computing involves the delivery of on-demand computer services through the internet. It enables the user to store files on a remote database, rather than storing them on a local storage device. The term ‘cloud’ means that information can be accessed over the virtual space or cloud.

There are three types of cloud computing which include: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-service (PaaS). SaaS is a type of a system that can be accessed through Microsoft Office 365. IaaS system includes Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. PaaS model include Heroku and Salesforce.

Increased overreliance on online presence for remote work, virtual meetings, mobile money transactions and virtual markets resulted to more deployment of multi-cloud arrangements. A survey done by Flexera on IT budgets revealed that the start of 2021 depicted more money flowing towards Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

AWS was the first company to offer public Cloud computing in 2008. Since then, it has grown to be a major technology industry player in machine learning, AI, serverless deployments and database. According to multiple reports, AWS growth rates have been decreasing in comparison to its rivals.

Covid-19 pandemic enabled Microsoft cloud business to boom as a number of companies relied on Microsoft Teams for remote tasks. The company was nearly overwhelmed in 2020 due to capacity issues, which was later addressed at the Ignite conference when the subject about outages was raised.

Microsoft cloud customers can be subscribed through Azure, Office 365, Dynamics or Teams.

The survey also showed that analytics workshop and big data were developing much interest for Google Cloud Platform. Google got a major boost during the pandemic, when most companies, institutions and government agencies used Google Meet to manage multi-cloud workloads.

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