Well it’s that time of year when the predictions and forecasting for what’s going to be hot and not next year start. Some of these can be pretty way out there with their predictions, but I thought this one written by Joe McKendrick at Forbes has some pretty realistic predictions. The article is a summary of some of the leading IT analysts, but Joe does a great job of selecting trends that are likely to occur next year if they have not already started at your company.
7 Predictions for Cloud Computing in 2013 that Make Perfect Sense
One of the predictions is that: “IT Organizations will increasingly be assuming Internal “Cloud Service Brokerage” roles – overseeing the provisioning and consumption of complex cloud services for their internal users and external business partners”.
Is this the year your company provides users with a choice of multi-vendor, multi-platform cloud services? If so, what do you see are the critical challenges you will need to address to achieve the objective of becoming an IT Service Broker?