From InfoWorld: Something big is up in the cloud. Google's Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle says in five years you will barely be able to recognize what today's cloud looks like.
Here's the example Hölzle gives: Think about what a "smart" phone looked like in 2007 before the first iPhone was released. Now, compare that to smartphones of today. Hölzle, who has helped the company build its Google Cloud Platform, says the cloud market is on the verge of a similar shift. "We're very early on," he says. "And this is a growth market."
In what areas will the cloud see major changes? Today, security is one of the biggest inhibitors to cloud adoption. In the future, Hölzle believes it could be one of the biggest reasons to use the cloud.
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have incredibly secure cloud systems. But, if you launch an app in one of those clouds, its security depends on how the app is configured in the cloud. AWS calls this the "shared security model," meaning that the company will secure the underlying service that the app uses, but customers have to take steps to ensure their workload is secure too.
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