The future holds great promise when it comes to the cloud. It’s no secret cloud computing has taken off in recent years with new innovations and business applications, but figuring out where cloud computing will be by the end of the decade can be difficult for those who don’t know what cloud computing is. Here’s a refresher course: Cloud computing is storing and accessing programs and data over the internet instead of a computer hard drive. The cloud is another name for the internet but has nothing to do with the hard drive. If data is stored on the hard drive or programs are run from the hard drive, it’s called local storage and computing.

 Here are a few predictions for companies and where cloud computing will be in 2020.

More application availability on the cloud
It’s predicted that by 2020, more than a quarter of all applications will be available via cloud. About 56 percent of enterprises consider cloud to be a strategic differentiator while about 58 percent of enterprises spend more than 10 percent of their annual budgets on cloud services.

Further segmentation and more education
Consumers are start to understand the differences between public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments. Companies can expect to see greater segmentation and better education about which type of cloud works best for them.

More hybrid cloud adoption and increased cloud development
Some industry leaders say that 50 percent of companies will have hybrid clouds as early as 2017. CIOs will be pushing for more strategies implementing the cloud although they won’t always be pure cloud implementations since it can be very difficult to do so. CIOs can expect to see more resources going towards cloud development since 85 percent of new software is being built with the cloud in mind.

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