In 5 Years, Average Annual Growth of Cloud Computing will Reach 26%

Aug. 4, 2011 - PRLog -- Nowadays, both Apple and Android belong to very typical cloud structure. What are the social and commercial values of cloud computing? Why are the world’s most authoritative companies, the best applications and the most high-end software so fascinated with it? What is the magic of cloud computing?
According to Charles Babcock, editor at large of the world famous magazine—InformationWeek, cloud computing is the most powerful and subversive force since the emerging of Internet. It is able to simplify operation, lower operating costs, and offer you flexibility and strength you’ve never dreamed of at the same time.
Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer of Microsoft Corp., describes the cloud element as large scale computer facilities which will be the backbone of the internet, and the so-called client devices, e.g. the PC or (smart) phones, being the way we choose to access these cloud services. Craig Mundie believes that future computing will be to distribute applications between the cloud and the client. Together they will create the next environment in which applications will be developed and deployed.
In an interview, Craig further expresses that at present, the computer is more like a powerful tool, but it needs experts who can make a use of this tool to achieve its highest value. Computer in the future will be able to provide human with better helps, without the users to master high professional skills. The changing keeps on going now, especially in health and education fields. By adopting cloud computing, people will be capable to reduce the costs of medical and health services, and the patients could do self-treatment through computer networks, instead of high-end medical workers.

Craig expected that one of the major innovations after “cloud” would be NUI (natural user interface), which makes the computer more like human, being able to see, to hear and to speak. The computer will be not only a kind of tool, but more like an assistant. Large-scale Internet services integrate with notebook, mobile phones, cares, game consoles, TVs and other computing devices, together with large range of sensor integration, which will bring in new ways of data-driven learning, solving business problems and so on. Microsoft wishes to integrate all these ways to do all these things, and make it available for more and more people and for semiconductor industry.

Based on International Data Corporation (IDC) data, cloud computing services will reach 10% of overall IT consumption in 2013, with annual revenue of $44.2 billion. In the next five years, the growth of cloud computing will be very fast, and average annual growth rate will be up to 26%, which is as 6 times as the growth rate of traditional IT industry.