The Future of Cloud Services

Despite early neigh saying from some IT experts, cloud services are not likely to be going out of favour any time soon.
While some pundits expounded on the problems that might have been such as a lack of data security or issues surrounding connections and down time, there have been few major issues.
To the contrary, there have been many success stories.
There are also far too many large name brands with cloud based offerings.
There are more specialised and larger scale offerings appearing daily as the competitive nature of data sharing and connectivity increases.
So if cloud services aren't going away, how are they likely to evolve? Pricing Structures As the arena becomes more competitive and more companies accept the technology is becoming increasingly accessible, prices are likely to drop and the types of contracts are likely to become more varied.
Structuring plans for cloud services and connectivity could be about to get a bit more complex than a simply monthly fee as with a standard broadband connection.
We could expect to see a rise in pay as you go data sharing; bundle plans for the multitude of cloud services available as well as the more common user based or size based contracts.
Constant upgrading and improvement as a selling point Constant upgrades and patching is a pain to roll out on self-hosted systems.
The opposite is true of cloud based services, where adding functionality or improving handling speeds without causing disruption will be a bonus.
Software that is in constant development will become a better financial offering, with offerings that are static falling behind in capability and freshness.
Automation More and more we are becoming used to software that removes repetitive tasks from our working lives.
The cloud services offered online are no exception to this and they are only going to get more customisable and offer more automation functions as they evolve.
The focus on usability is unlikely to decrease, but it may turn towards personal customisation.
This is likely to occur in alliance with progress in AI with software that is designed to learn from its users configuring landing pages to show their most used features for example.
Truly mobile, truly global Cloud services have always been cited as mobile and global offerings, that aspect is likely to progress, with multi-lingual options and phone compatible user interfaces becoming prevalent.
Outsourcing for economic advantage becomes much more easily achieved when users can be given the same access in their own first language.