Chaotic cloud marketplace will feature variety

Darwinian evolutionary theory can be readily applied to the cloud computing market, wrote Dave Geada, senior product marketing manager for Quest, in a recent SYS-CON article. Eventually, only the fittest service providers and applications will survive.

The current market has a wide array of options for customers seeking cloud-enabled IT solutions.Geada claims that this will lead to specialization of key IT services and virtual applications for the computing industry of the future, all of which may display outstanding track records. Therefore, the platform will eventually include a large number of diversified software offerings which, through specialization, have managed to survive the initial onslaught of programming products.

This thinking may allay fears for virtualized data and render recent cloud outages insignificant, attests Geada. Because the platform will eventually work out its evolutionary kinks and grow to harbor well-functioning IT services, those who claim that recent, highly-publicized cloud failures were caused by problems with the architectural nature of the platform may have have to reassess their views, according to the SYS-CON article.

The cloud is primed for expansion, according to a Gartner report. Recently, it was named the Top Strategic Technology for 2011, which highlights the platform's promise.