Cloud Economics:

Staten states that enterprises need to do some math work before going or even thinking of the cloud. The first and the foremost thing that companies must work with is economics.

"If you want to get the best return on investment [ROI] out of your use of cloud services and platforms, you need to actively model the cost profile of your apps, monitor their resource use and adjust accordingly," he said.

The study also said that at present, cloud computing services are now backed by prolific hardware such as large drives and storages. This means that cloud services have become highly standardized and automated.

"In 2013 we should expect to see the proliferation of these types of choices as cloud providers leverage them to meet specific market demands and to differentiate competitively," Staten said.

Disaster Recovery:

According to Forrester, cloud services probably won’t replace the existing disaster recovery (DR) resources as the implication of cloud has been more of a cost oriented one. The study also predicted that in years, enterprises will be using cloud computing for long-term data storage and not for simple testing and experimental procedures.

The reason behind this upcoming phenomenon maybe of cloud’s strength on turning the cost of storage upside down.

"What was cheaper to back up to traditional DR storage last year will be cheaper and easier to put in the cloud is short order as well as faster to recover,” said Staten.

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