2020 in Review, 2021 Predictions

2020/12/23

The Cloudcast

Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends from 2020, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2021**SHOW: **481

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FORMAT CHANGES in 2021

“Look Ahead in 2021” shows in January
Still doing the normal, weekly technical shows, starting in February
Will be doing a shorter (15mins) technical show on Sundays, preview the Wed show
Will be launching the Cloudcast Basics) podcast series in 2021 (@cloudcastbasics)).

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2020:

COVID sent everybody home. 2020 was the year of VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service.
Conferences went all virtual. Did anybody miss them? Did anybody do them well?
More companies adopted the public cloud, since they couldn’t get into their data centers.
But we also found out the public cloud isn’t infinite resources (e.g. Azure had to prioritize existing customers, healthcare customers). Long-term investments matter.
Did you have a favorite video conference service in 2020?
AWS: $46B, Azure: $30B-ish , GCP: $12-13B, Alibaba: $6-8B - Azure still doesn’t break out their revenues.
OSS-companies are growing their Cloud/Managed business (MongoDB, Confluent, RedisLabs, Red Hat, etc. - as well as others like VMware, Nutanix)
More companies are going cloud-only in their offerings (Snowflake, Tecton, Observ, etc.). Atlassian is moving away from the on-prem offerings (over next couple years)
ARM chips made their name in mobile phones, and now they are poised to take over desktops and public cloud (cheaper, faster) - NVIDIA bought ARM
AWS had an outage just before Thanksgiving - nobody is actually sure how AWS works behind the scenes.
Hybrid Cloud is now officially a thing - AWS, Azure and GCP all have offerings, as well as every traditional vendor.

**2021 PREDICTIONS: **Our 2020 Predictions from last year)

Aaron’s Predictions