April - 2015 - issue > CXO INSIGHT

Are you Future Ready for the Next Cloud Trends?

Badri Rajasekar, Chief Technology Officer, TokBox

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

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Badri Rajasekar, Chief Technology Officer, TokBox

Cloud continues to be one of the hottest topics in the technology space, but it encapsulates a raft of innovations and emerging trends that impacts all CTOs. In this column we're going to consider what those trends are, where there are remaining challenges and requirement for improvement and, critically, how to embrace and deliver innovation in a world of rapid change.

Firstly, what are the key trends?

I believe there are four key elements to be aware of:
Mobile Optimized: It's no surprise that mobile computing already dominates and will control the computing end-point ecosystem. BYOD is the new norm. There is a lot of momentum behind what it means to have a "mobile first strategy," but a lot of this is going to depend on cloud offerings which are highly mobile centric and mobile optimized.

Analytics: Businesses are increasingly leveraging big-data and analytics to streamline and improve the intelligence of their operations. This means that cloud technology providers need to deliver sophisticated analytics that offer full transparency to their customers, whether it's to show usage, behavior patterns, and more.

Ecosystem Manageability: Increasingly, the success of platforms will be driven by the tools and features that enable ecosystem manageability. The cloud offerings of the future need to be backed by a robust set of tools and functionality that enable customers to easily manage their real-world deployments. That could manifest itself in many ways - whether it's providing integration tools, analytics to understand behavior of the ecosystem or better deployment frameworks - manageability is the key to complex systems of the future.