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Guided cloud computing has entered a mature stage, which is characterized by standardization and stronger cross-platform compatibility. So what will be the development of cloud computing in the coming year?

While the industry may be growing maddeningly fast, macro trends and past events provide the basis for future predictions.

Here are some of CRN's guesses, and this year we will see some major moves by players in the industry to seek subversive heights.

Salesforce launches analysis platform

In recent years, the leaders of CRM have constantly come to the fore in the M & A market, laying the foundation for new products. ExactTarget and Demandware have developed marketing cloud and commercial cloud, respectively. Recently, MuleSoft provides the core integration capabilities of the Salesforce Customer 360 vision.

Salesforce's Einstein AI platform is a mature product in many ways, but it is based on RelateIQ, MetaMind, Implisit, PredictionIO and Tempo.

The theme of the company's acquisition last year was "Analysis". Salesforce bought Tableau for $15.7 billion, the largest deal in its history, and Salesforce improved its analytical skills through Datorama.

Salesforce is injecting these technologies into the entire portfolio. It may also integrate them into some data-centric SaaS products.

AWS and Microsoft launch hybrid Kubernetes service

The two largest public cloud providers offer powerful managed Kubernetes platforms. However, Amazon EKS and Microsoft AKS are still running on their own cloud instances.

Both suppliers are well aware of the general trend towards hybrid mode, and they also see competitors using Kubernetes as a bridge to invade the enemy.

Google and VMware, in particular, have done a lot of work in separating Kubernetes from their own platforms. Google's antos and upcoming VMware Tanzu services can be extended to prem, AWS, and Microsoft Azure for hybrid and multi-cloud application deployment. But Amazon and Microsoft seem unlikely to extend EKS and AKS beyond their own clouds this year.

The battle for JEDI is coming to an end

The $10 billion joint enterprise defense infrastructure contract (JEDI) is already in Microsoft's pocket, but JEDI is still hotly debated in court.

According to foreign media reports, a spokesman for Amazon Web Services said today that AWS will seek testimony from US President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper about the Pentagon cloud service contract. Amazon believes Trump exerted undue influence on his decision not to award it a $10 billion cloud contract.

At the end of October, the Pentagon announced that Microsoft beat Amazon to win a $10 billion cloud computing contract from the Pentagon. Amazon later accused US President Donald Trump of being biased against Amazon and put inappropriate pressure on the Pentagon. On the other hand, US Defense Secretary Esper denied that there was any prejudice, saying that the Pentagon made a fair and free choice without external influence.

IBM uses Red Hat to challenge competitors

IBM has been faltering in its integration with Red Hat products. So far, the only joint product of IBM and its subsidiaries is a series of cloud Paks that integrate IBM middleware with Red Hat's OpenShift Kubernetes platform.

Big Blue believes that Red Hat is the key to making IBM the dominant hybrid cloud service provider, and it is just not time for bold moves to make waves across the industry in the future.

Sometime this year, IBM may have a project that makes cloud computing competitors complain.

Microsoft's artificial intelligence chip

Custom chips are popular among super-scale manufacturers, such as Amazon's Inferentia chip and Google's Tensor processing unit (TPU).

Microsoft has been working with its investment company Graphcore to provide intelligent processing units, or IPU, to accelerate AI workloads on Azure.

Microsoft has been recruiting chip designers from its Azure division to build its own specialized artificial intelligence processors. We may see the results of this project this year.

VMware signs Internet of things deal

Recently, VMware has been busy with acquisitions, and two big acquisitions last year have been over: Pivotal Software and Carbon Black. The two acquisitions complement the deal between Bitnami, an early application deployment specialist, and Avi Networks, a technology disrupter in application delivery.

With so many new products, VMware seems to have purchased an extremely comprehensive product portfolio for itself to deploy an application-oriented infrastructure in any cloud environment.

This year, VMware is expected to slow spending, take a break and focus on two big Kubernetes projects, Tanzu and Project Pacific.

AWS acquires Kubernetes startups

Every cloud infrastructure company, whether a public service provider or a local hardware and software provider, must have a strong Kubernetes proposition to compete in the current market. Therefore, in recent years, enterprise IT giants have been actively looking for container experts to maintain their leading position in the field of modern infrastructure.

IBM bought Red Hat for $34 billion, largely using Kubernetes to enhance the hybrid cloud capabilities of its products. Many smaller startups were swallowed up last year: Microsoft's Deis, VMware's Heptio, NetApp's StackPointCloud and, more recently, Mirantis's acquisition of Docker's enterprise business.

As the creator of Kubernetes, Google is unlikely to make a futile effort in this regard. But as a developer of container platforms, it's not uncommon for AWS to acquire successful Kubernetes startups during the peak season.

AWS Leaders puts forward "cloudy"

Not long ago, many speakers at Amazon Web Services events only used the hybrid cloud as an "awkward" entry point in the migration of enterprises to the public cloud. As Amazon established a groundbreaking partnership with VMware, the taboo was lifted, and the hybrid cloud seemed to have gone from a bad word to a buzzword overnight.

But so far, AWS staff have kept quiet about the word "cloudy".

However, almost everyone in the industry acknowledges that cloudiness is the trend of the future. According to the research company, the rate of cloudy adoption will continue to rise in 2020.

Edges are everywhere.

In the era of the Internet of things, every cloud needs an edge strategy. Infrastructure as a service providers are deploying such small devices in densely populated areas to bring them closer to customers. AWS recently introduced Local Zones in Los Angeles using the new Outposts local server rack as the edge infrastructure, and Microsoft has launched dozens of "edge sites" to bring Azure closer to its users.

As demand for low-latency computing resources surges, companies are looking for more providers (especially the remaining niches in the market) and partnering with telecom companies such as CenturyLink.

Battle for supercomputing hegemony

AWS gave a keynote speech at re:Invent 2019, focusing on how AWS provides true supercomputing capabilities in the cloud. Google, Microsoft and Alibaba are also promoting their on-demand infrastructure to high-performance computing practitioners.

Although public clouds can ease the pain of scientists and engineers running HPC workloads in a variety of ways, the market is still largely at a standstill. It was not until recently that HPC users began to routinely enter the public cloud to ease the bottleneck of accessing resources.

For customers who design semiconductors, simulate weather, explore oil and gas, and perform advanced genome sequencing, the development of local networks, multi-core architectures and dedicated chips may be very meaningful.

By 2020, as workloads that require a lot of resources begin to migrate to the cloud on a large scale, HPC will become a major battleground in super extenders.

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