Cloud computing has long been among the major tech trends highlighted by analysis institutes, but in 2017, especially for companies, will be the key word.

E increasingly evident, in fact, how companies are moving towards systems are able to network in a collaborative environment, employees, partners and vendors. All with the aim of coming as close as possible to what customers want and then to develop targeted strategies to the effectiveness of the business.

Over the past ten years the cloud computing model has marked a revolution in the technology market and will remain so at least until 2020.

According to Forrester the flow of investments in the sector by companies lead the global market for public cloud from 146 million in 2017 to $ 236 million in 2020.

The latest research published by Forrester showed that 38% of the most important companies in the field of technological infrastructure are investing on private clouds, while a further 32% on public cloud services. Data show that businesses are embarking firmly their migration towards the cloud.

Forrester also highlighted the main trends of cloud computing in 2017, of which companies should be taken into account in order to remain competitive in the market. These include:

Cost containment. In addition to traditional pay-per-use models, the cloud will allow users to save in many other ways, including through the promotion of good practices for cost optimization.

The megacloud suppliers will not be the only option. In 2017 the global market for public cloud will exceed 146 million dollars, with an annual growth rate of 22 percent. The lions share will continue to make the big names, however, by themselves they will not be able to serve the amount of requests and will kick in smaller regional providers, also able to meet the growing needs for customization.

Infrastructure iperconvergente (HCI). This type of infrastructure is destined to spread more and more, in order to integrate the private and public cloud benefits. Often, the technology responsible for a company prefer not to accept the risks associated with the custody of sensitive customer data in a public cloud. On the other hand, private cloud services require very expensive features, such as standardization, automation, access advanced self-service and monitoring of resources. L HCI, according to Forrester, is fast becoming the default infrastructure platform on which to build the private part of a hybrid cloud.

Lift and Shift instruments. Forrester believes that migration to the cloud will become easier thanks to the tools lift-and-shift, which will greatly reduce the cost and fully exploit the flexibility of the cloud.