Opinion: Cloud Computing Forecast — Sunny or Partly Cloudy?

There are five main categories of cloud deployments: public clouds, private clouds, hybrid, multi-clouds and high-performance clouds. By 2025 there will be over 200 zettabytes of data stored in the cloud worldwide. Global spending on public cloud products is growing at an annual rate of 20.4 percent and likely to reach $600 billion in 2023, according to Gartner. An important capability of cloud services is to be able to monitor how much you are spending, says CIO Ron Bergman. Bergman: We need to shift money where we have committed money and where we are not using it more, and how it can be used in real time? The cloud computing is here to stay, Bergman says. . . .