Here are my thoughts on what we can expect in the cloud space in 2012.
Cloud data will become more insightful for business as a whole
With companies sitting on zetabytes of data, many organizations are in
possession of tremendously powerful knowledge and insight about their
employees, customers and the world they live in. Companies are beginning to
know they could get lift from this data, but few are harnessing it.
In 2012, the buzz around big data will drive the need to consolidate data
storage for real-time access.
Once data consolidation happens, we'll open the door to advanced analytics of
data. By the end of 2012, we'll begin to see third parties white label
private data for aggregate insights, i.e., ADP jobs numbers.
One SaaS outage at a well-known company will cripple business and capture
headlines for days
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