In the recent years we have seen a growth and improvisation in the cloud hosting platforms. Various web hosting companies have emerged as strong cloud hosting players. In the year 2011, the cloud hosting market has seen a revolution, empowered by the development of enterprise-class cloud virtualization infrastructure along with concentrating on factors like efficiency, stability, security and scalability of cloud hosting solutions. This has resulted in an increase in new categories of value-added cloud services including prominent sectors like mobile, media, finance and analytics. On the basis of the developments that took place in 2011, here is an insight on what you can expect from cloud hosting and open source software applications in the year 2012.
Public Cloud For Disaster Recovery Planning
The current economic scenario will intensify the drive of the enterprises to find ways for curbing the in-house IT resources. Enterprises will also consider cost cutting by improving the efficiency of their server and application infrastructures. Disaster recovery planning increases the costs for the business enterprises as a fully redundant server infrastructure has the be maintained. A number of established cloud hosting service providers have started incorporating disaster recovery services with a view to improvise on the security aspect. Such services will move into the mainstream during 2012 as more and more companies begin to understand the importance of the cloud hosting platform, not just to improve the affordability but also for reducing the recovery times to a great extent. The cloud hosting platform provides benefits in terms of savings on hardware and personnel. Further development of network replication services, that might seem to be unreasonably expensive and difficult to test in a conventional DR system, provides a pathway to the speedy recovery in the cloud. Cloud hosting platform comprises of smartly architectured “elastic” applications that provides the enterprises the opportunity to utilize cloud-based disaster recovery infrastructure for dealing with additional load spikes during the operations.
Importance of open source applications
With an improvisation in internet, open source software applications are considered as a hidden layer of code backing up the operating infrastructure. Open source has been largely utilized to complement and improve the commercial offerings and to implement the most efficient class of services. With time, open source solutions have become the “best in class” software, and some of them have developed great reputations for being the most powerful and flexible. The leading players in the hosting industry and enterprise markets are more inclined towards the open source products for establishing commercial offerings and the obvious reason is the economical and efficient approach involved.
While its evident that the most powerful open source solutions have now established a satisfactory credibility level that makes the choice more obvious. The seasoned IT professionals regard the open source applications as the most secured and trusted ones – mainly because of their openness, that enables independent assessment, encourages quality code writing and simplifies the tasks of making extensions and bug patching. Another important advantage of open source applications is that it enables the companies to avoid vendor lock-in, which further reduces the dependence on expensive product support and premature obsolescence. The fact is that the open source products are typically developed under the guidance of an active user and developer community where organic evolution is integral to the culture. This goes on to say that selecting the open source software applications is a viable option for the enterprises mainly for the establishment of commercial grade services in context of today’s fast-changing and dynamic marketplace.
It is not surprising that the in-house developers and internet giants are already using the open source technology on a regular basis. In fact, some of the leading open source products are now securely backed by larger commercial entities. This adds to the current improvements, support and reliability – along with a higher level of confidence for using the open source product. The technological advancements and the platform provided by the open source applications make them a complete value for money.
Hosting companies and open source technology
In the year 2011, we saw the website hosting companies explore more options for achieving higher efficiency, scalability and security. As the industry becomes more competitive in 2012, you will witness more hosting companies looking for products, free or commercial, that will enable them to achieve true scalability without making major investments in new hardware and ensuring the quality at the same time. Moreover these products should be easy to deploy and use, so that establishing a new service like SaaS or platform-as-a-service (PaaS) becomes easy.
Mobile broadband services
Adapting to the internet-connected mobile services is a fast growing trend, exceeding the historical adoption rates for television and the desktop Internet. This trend is accompanied by an avalanche of new mobile devices, machine-to-machine applications and an improvisation in the rich media content for mobile. With 27% mobile smartphone penetration, there’s still plenty of room to grow. Mobile broadband providers encounter serious challenges as they struggle in terms of growing their signaling and traffic offload capabilities.
In 2012, many telecoms companies will look forward in terms of exploring more flexible alternatives for the expensive hardware solutions. There is a high possibility of the virtualized cloud environment to grow rapidly, without limits. We expect to see new products in the market, enabling seamless integration of mobile radio and voice infrastructure with a virtualized signaling and data offload infrastructure ‘in the cloud’ data processing technology based on the cloud will give the carriers the capacity to expand as per the demand – predictably, securely, and economically.
Cloud hosting trends that one can look forward to 2012
* An increase in the private cloud adaption for making the best use of the cloud hosting platform.
* Hybrid cloud is here for the long run as it offers more stability and security to the business.
* An increase in the application specific cloud communities
* An increase in managed cloud hosting services fully equipped with the latest technologies.
* Disaster recovery and scaling would be the major factors for deploying the cloud hosting platform.
In 2012′s stringent economic environment, companies will accelerate their network and IT infrastructure development with a view of optimal cost-savings and extreme efficiency and the cloud hosting platform will be in the limelight along with the support of the open source applications; this will create a perfect platform for ensuring the scalability of the business. Timely and smart use of the cloud hosting platform and open source technology will surely provide benefits in terms of creating a unique identity and dominating the competition.
