Cloud Projections for a near future-factualFiction

Hi all,
Cloud is now getting mature enough to tell the big bosses in big companies to take some big radical decisions, because its the big time now.
Introduction

So what should we expect from the rain-bucket i.e. cloud? I am going to write about what implications the current trending will bring, what sort of new models can emerge, what opportunities can come, and what threats might stream with it.
Mainframe to Client/server had a generational impact and a generational shift in mentality. It also shaped the world with its opportunities, and challenges. Then came the convergence and the life-of-all became inter-meshed. Then came the marriage of telecom sector with the IT sector. Then came the tilting of social-media from vertical to an awesome horizontal. Now its time to go back to the old days of electricity.

Cloud trends across multiple service architectures:

I am trying to think not to write in a manner that this blog-post becomes again a mundane appraisal of cloud computing. But an inspection to see the trends and what tweaks we can introduce and what implications that would bring, is the issue here.
The IT companies have no doubt set the trend for others to follow suite, and showed tremendousness business-case opportunity for those who were sceptic in the first place. Telecom sector along with its IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), SIP, SS7 Stacks or INs (Intelligent Networks), WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access), Femtocells, and LTE (Long Term Evolution) has mesmerised Operators to use their Pipes to service customers at other service levels e.g. finance, medical, engineering, etc. Now IT and Telecommunications sector has the opportunity to be in the same room, and play the metal for the audience. Lets try our IF mentality i.e. IF this happens then this can happen and IF not then that.
Cloud service providers will be able to make cloud data centers in each country in a near future, lets say 2-3 years. Currently we have few datacenters in multiple countries BUT China, India, Canada, Nepal, Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan, Russia still don’t have that much to office in terms of cloud provisioning for the public. So if that happens, it will push certain behaviour in non-IT sectors. Telecom companies that are in every country perhaps multiple in each country, will be able to make cloud applications/services which are specialised with respect to locality, aggregation, security, and performance characteristics. Added to this flavour will be the horizontal aspect of social media. Added to this is the ease of access and broadband speeds that consumers will have in two to three years will grant throttle perspective to cloud computing where SOA will gets its out-of-the-box access, creation, maintenance, and serviceability from enterprise level to bare metal consumer level.

Lets dig up the protos:

Spot Cloud, Storms in Clouds, intercloud, API explosion, and multiple implementations has already started a shift in academia to get to the standardisation stage for clouds. IEEE has opened its hands to get the standardisation outputs, IETF is on its DOING to get it standardised, and Orange, Ericsson Research Labs, and AT&T are moving in the directions of how to standardise their own or public implementations of clouds using their initiatives e.g. SAIL (Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions) by Ericsson.
Now comes the BIG V i.e. virtualization. Distributed virtualization is gaining more strengths and fluid nature and easy management of VMs will boost another layer of virtualization to be formed. This layer will have tendencies to form SOA models from within this layer. So the front ends to this will be used in enterprises to have their own machines flowing in their own distributed virtualization pool and a much more generic output will come with architecture independence. I will touch this somewhat later in a new post.

Security concerns never die

Security concerns as they are now in the market are pretty much natural but have lack of judgemental treatment. If enterprises will not solve this psychological milestone or cloudKnot, then we will see more PRIVATE then PUBLIC in the next few years. If they solve it then TESTING in the cloud will be augmented with application delivery with Telecom Pipes coming IN and OUT of the public clouds too. Currently not possible, but this radical step might be in the way. But be cautious, the main security threat will COME at that time. I guess the concerned guys know what this prick (myself) is writing here.

Have a nice day.
Enjoy