Cloud computing continues to reshape the business technology landscape. The cloud landscape has changed significantly in 2019, with new alliances, high-powered new infrastructure, and even more open source innovation.
In 2019 major acquisitions took place, (IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat, and VMware reabsorbed Pivotal) and surprising new alliances (Oracle partnered with Microsoft on high-speed links between Oracle Cloud and Azure, and VMware brought its Cloud Foundation to Google Cloud).
Forrester 2020 cloud computing predictions: “IBM and Oracle will retreat to familiar territory while Alibaba threatens Google. Oracle will ink a high-speed connectivity deal with AWS or Google — it must in order to serve its customers. Alibaba will generate $4.5 billion in global cloud platform revenue, surpassing Google, but Google will retain its third-place ranking for North American.”
In 2020, it is expected that cloud application, platform, infrastructure, and management vendors will battle fiercely for attention and dominance. Will Google remain in third-place?