The concept of cloud computing has been deeply rooted in people's minds. More and more companies are migrating their businesses to the cloud, and more and more people are joining the cloud computing industry through learning and training. According to Gartner's analysis report, the global public cloud market will exceed 200 billion US dollars in 2019 and will continue to maintain a steady growth rate. So what are the trends in the development of cloud computing in 2020?

Cloud computing is roughly divided into two types: one is private cloud, the other is public cloud, and some people connect private cloud and public cloud and call it hybrid cloud, but let's not talk about this here.

Private cloud: deploy the virtualization and cloud software in someone else's data center. Users who use private clouds are often very rich. They buy land and build computer rooms, buy servers, and then let cloud vendors deploy them here. In addition to virtualization, VMware later launched cloud computing products and made a lot of money in the private cloud market.

Public cloud: virtualization and cloud software are deployed in the cloud vendor's own data center. Users do not need to invest much. As long as they register an account, they can create a virtual computer on a web page with one click. For example, AWS is Amazon's public cloud; for example, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, NetEase Cloud, etc. in China.

The following is an analysis of the development trend of cloud computing in 5 aspects:

1. SaaS vendors withdraw from private platforms and choose to cooperate with hyperscale leaders

Those SaaS vendors who entered the infrastructure market late have basically chosen large cloud vendors as partners. Analysts point out that to compete in the SaaS field, reducing profit margins as much as possible is a key. For example, the deployment of infor, the world's third largest enterprise-level application software and service provider, on AWS is a major proof. And this trend will become more obvious in 2020.

2. Alibaba Cloud is advancing by leaps and bounds

At present, the world's largest cloud vendors are AWS, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud and Google Cloud. However, with IBM's acquisition of Red Hat and Oracle's cooperation with Microsoft, IBM and Oracle may shift their focus to the development platform field.

In 2018, Alibaba Cloud achieved an annual growth of 92.6%, making it the fastest growing cloud computing provider. The company has established an ecosystem that can support the rapid growth of its business in China and radiate to the Asian region.

In 2018, compared with other hyperscale providers, the company invested heavily in the research and development of its product portfolio and achieved rapid growth. Alibaba has the financial strength to continue this trend and invest in global expansion. If Google Cloud, which has been surpassed by Alibaba Cloud, wants to achieve greater success, its best chance is to focus on its European business.

3. Competition between cloud native and Service Mesh and Serverless

Modern enterprises are breaking down their applications into smaller and smaller microservice components. The best way to deploy these microservices is in small software containers. Service Mesh is a mesh that can help run hundreds or thousands of microservices. Currently, many open source vendors are competing in the Service Mesh field: Connect, Gloo, Istio, Kuma, Linkerd 2, Maesh, Mesher and SOFAMesh. The main commercial products include AWS App Mesh, Google Anthos and VMware NSX SM.

4. The use of high-performance computing (HPC) in public clouds has grown to 40%

High-performance computing is a very professional field in different industries, but it is very expensive to run it in the public cloud because you have to buy all the services to use it. In the past few years, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud have added HPC to their services, allowing users to purchase high-performance computing capabilities and use it only when needed. High-performance computing in public clouds has grown and will continue to grow rapidly. In 2018, the proportion of enterprises using high-performance computing was 36%, and it is expected that by 2020, this proportion will exceed 40%.

5. Cloud management players solve cloud security issues

Before this, cloud managers defined security as access control, permissions, and policy creation, while ignoring cloud workload security (CWS), cloud security gateways, micro-segmentation, encryption, security analytics, threat intelligence, endpoint detection and response, etc. Although local vendors will continue to invest in these security programs, data management vendors will become cloud security leaders in 2020 as the focus has shifted to protecting data. Therefore, the focus in 2020 will be on protecting data in the public cloud.

2020 will bring many changes to the cloud computing world, and enterprises will face various problems when moving to the cloud, which requires professional cloud computing talents. For this reason, they are all willing to hire professional cloud computing talents at high salaries.