Cloud

In the enterprise, the key driver is the growth of cloud computing, which will increase at an astounding compound annual growth rate of more than 20 percent from 2012 through 2015, according to TIA’s Market Review and Forecast. Cloud computing will open the market to increased use of applications by more companies. In the data communications services market, growth in cloud services is driving data center traffic and boosting demand for networks that can handle that traffic. TIA is addressing these demands as well as cybersecurity concerns.

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Cloud Computing Standards Task Group
TIA recently created a new standards task group to address Cloud Computing. TR-42.1.1 Data Fabrics Task Group plans to explore fabric networking layouts for data centers, which are primarily used for large-scale distributed computing clusters found at the heart of cloud computing. The group is studying the efficacy of fabrics and with the goal of incorporating their findings into the recently revised TIA-942 data center infrastructure standard. (For more information on participating in this group, please contact Stephanie Montgomery at smontgomery@tiaonline.org.)

• Read the TIA White Paper on Cloud Computing.

Optimizing the Cloud at TIA 2012
 
Join TIA at its annual conference and summit, TIA 2012: Inside the Network, June 5-7, 2012 in Dallas. "Optimizing the Cloud" will be one of several education tracks at TIA 2012, where service providers will gain the information they need to insert themselves into the cloud services value chain by redefining their roles to expand beyond connectivity and provide Web-based application delivery services. For more information, go to tia2012.org.

TIA NOW Video
From Dumb Pipe to Dumb Cloud: How to Monetize and Optimize Cloud Services

• Executive Insight: Best of Both Worlds in the Cloud? Troy Angrignon, VP of Sales and Partnering at US-based cloud specialist, Cloudscaling, on why the world needs an open, Linux equivalent in the cloud space.
• Main Agenda at MWC: The New Office in the Cloud: What successful business cloud providers require are enthusiastic cloud consumers.
• TIA 2012: A Brave New World Needs Security New thinking on methods and best practices to improve authentication and secure devices, networks and applications that reside in the Cloud.
• Cloud Computing Revolution: Cybersecurity, the cloud and innovation keep the network moving forward. What should you know?
• The Role of Standards in the Cloud: What role has TIA played in creating cloud standards and how can we maximize interoperability in the cloud?
• All The Angles: The Cloud and Its Biggest Customer: TIA NOW covers the U.S. government's migrations toward cloud services, TIA's cloud computing whitepaper and NIST's cloud computing standards roadmap.
• The Cloud and the Fed: Who Needs Who? Yankee Group's Sandra Palumbo gives us the latest on cloud security and why federal agencies are adopting cloud services.

Market Review and Forecast

IT-based cloud computing was the fastest-growing category among specialized services in 2011 with a 28.4 percent increase, and we expect it will continue to be the fastest-growing during the next four years, averaging 20.3 percent compounded annually. Cloud computing is creating new markets, not simply shifting spending from the enterprise. As new cloud-based end-user services emerge and as existing services expand, spending on IT-based cloud computing among existing users will grow, and more companies will adopt cloud computing. Spending will more than double to $12.1 billion in 2015 from $5.8 billion in 2011.

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