Where does the cloud go from here? For many companies, this is a multi-aerb-dollar question. A set of answers comes from the latest letters of tech analyst Gartner, Future of Cloud in 2029: Travel from technology to business requirement And Prophecy 2025: Cloud adoption -shaped challenges,
In Sydney, Australia, in its IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference, Gartner also suggested eight major trends for cloud through 2029: Cloud disjointed, AI/Machine Learning (ML), Multikalad, Sastinet Surprise, Digital Surprise, Digital Surprise, Supercommotion And industry-specific solution.
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In his main speech at the conference, Joe Rosas, Gartner Advisory Director, said: “These trends are accelerating the shift of how the cloud is changing A professional disruption from a technology enabler and required for most organizations. Over the next few years, the cloud will continue to unlock the new business model, competitive advantage and ways to get the business missions. ,
This is a very common comment. It also kills me as behind time. I have been following Cloud for a day, and I would say that Claude has been a business disruptive for over a decade.
Just see, for example, a giant of 800 pounds of cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS). Just two years after the establishment of 2006, Larry Dignon of ZDNET predicted that Amazon’s cloud business would prove to be far more profitable than its retail prasad. Today, AWS provides only 17% of Amazon’s total revenueThe company is the most profitable section.
As Code infrastructure (IAC) Company Spacelift, 96% of all companies are now using public clouds At least to take some of your charge. At the same time, 2024 CDW Cloud Computing Research Report It has been said that 45% of organizations have already shifted at least half of their applications on public clouds. Looking forward, the remaining 35% said that they would take at least half of those applications to the cloud within three years.
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The disintegration is here, and it is now for some time. Just look at Microsoft. Many people think that the company makes most of its money from Windows and Office. However, in 2024, 62% of its revenue came from cloud services. Windows had only 10%account. This division explains why Microsoft is investing so much money in Linux.
Let’s dig into the trends of Gartner and see where he takes us.
1. Cloud dissatisfaction: a growing challenge
Despite broad adoption, many people are unhappy with their clouds, especially their cost. Gartner has predicted that by 2028, a quarter of organizations will experience significant dissatisfaction with their cloud investment, often due to unrealistic expectations, sub -convention implementation or spilling costs.
Depending on my many conversations with experts on Cloud Trade Show, I think many, perhaps most, businesses are already unhappy with the cloud bill. This is a common complaint.
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As State of Claudazero’s 2024 Cloud Cost Intelligence ReportOnly 10 out of 10 organizations have their cloud costs where they expect them to be. This result means that about 60% of the organizations find the cost of their clouds more than anticipated, with 49% saying that the cost should be “slightly more” and 11% reporting the cost was very high. ”
It is stating that AI software delivery company, Harnes, found in its annual survey report, Focus in focus 2025That it hopes that businesses are expected to ruin $ 44.5 billion on Cloud in 2025. Gartner estimated that the industry would spend $ 723.4 billion on Cloud this year. It is a lot of money and a lot of garbage.
2. AI and ML: New Cloud Workload
Guess? Businesses will soon spend a lot on Cloud. Gartner and very much everyone predicts that we will build AI, and it is not cheap. Indeed, Gartner has predicted that by 2029, half of all cloud compute resources will be dedicated to AI workload today.
On the other hand, IDC estimates that by 2025, 75% business will take advantage of AI-driven cloud servicesTherefore, Gartner can be underestimated and how the organization will quickly swing for cloud-driven AI services. However, another question is whether The money spent on AI Cloud will be worth it. I doubt
3. Multikalaud and hybrid strategies: flexibility on lock-in
The days of relying on single cloud provider disappear. Gartner mentioned an increase in multiculture adoption, in which organizations adapted to seller lock-in and adapt to cost, performance and flexibility to combine private and public cloud resources. By the end of 2025, Gartner is expected to use hybrids or multikalud strategies to over 85% of organizations.
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In fact, we are almost almost there. Most businesses – even my mini business, Von-nicols and associates – Use more than one cloud. A hybrid cloud, by the way, is one where you run workloads in both private (on-primeses) and public cloud environment, usually to manage and deploy applications in various infrastructure such as orchestation tools such as Kuberanets. A multicloud is just one where you use two or more clouds for services. For example, Microsoft 365 is used for your office software, and Google Drive is used for your personal file storage.
As State of Fortinet’s 2025 Cloud Security ReportMore than 78% of organizations already use two or more cloud providers. StatisticsBusiness data company, agree. In 2024, Statista announced that more than this 70% firms use two or more cloud providers,
4. Permanent solution: green clouds
Gartner believes that the green cloud is no longer a peripheral concern. The analyst highlighted the rise of the Green Cloud initiative as the provider and users face increasing pressure to reduce their environmental impact. Cloud giants such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are investing in renewable energy and carbon-plate data centers.
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However, I strongly doubt that there is no concern for the environment to promote this trend, but rather cost cuts. Remember, many cloud customers are not happy with their bills. Green cloud computing can also be cheap cloud computing. As a cloudzero, a cloud cost optimizer, observed: “Claude by optimizing expensesCompanies can significantly reduce waste, low energy consumption, and thus, reduce their carbon emissions. ,
5. Edge Computing and Quantum Jump
In 2019, Arpit Joshipura, general manager of Networking of Linux Foundation, told me that by 2025, “Edge Computing would overtake Cloud Computing”. He was not right, but he was not very wrong. Edge and Cloud Computing, as Gartner saw, merged. They are making a comfortable computational fabric, enabling real-time analytics and IOT applications that demand ultra-lo delay.
Others have also indicated this blurred. Bernard Marr, a well -considered future, recently seen: ” Artificial limit between edge and cloud computing is disappearingGiving birth to a spontaneous computational fabric that is possible is giving shape again. Self-driving cars will take advantage of cloud-based intelligence and take the local decisions at the local level. ,
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Public cloud computing remains significant with an estimated expenditure in $ 723BN this year. Again, however, it will be difficult to tell the line between the edge and the cloud as a mixture together.
Meanwhile, Quantum is emerging from computing lab and entering the cloud, making quantum capabilities as a service with providers such as IBM, Microsoft and Amazon, which unlocles new possibilities in areas ranging from drug discovery to cyber security. But let’s be real. Quantum computing is still a long, long way that uses anyone in production. Of course, you can say that in 2020, also about AI, and now look at us?
6. Industry-specific clouds
Gartner also predicts that more and more organizations will turn to industry-specific cloud platforms. The analyst firm said that by 2029, more than half of all organizations would take advantage of these special cloud solutions to accelerate their commercial initiatives.
Industries offer cloud platforms designed to meet unique needs of vertical regions such as healthcare, finance, manufacturing and retail. Sellers are rapidly rolling solutions beyond generic cloud services, allowing companies to score digital initiatives and respond more effectively to industry-specific challenges.
This is a case where Gartner, I think it is behind the curve. Many industries are already closed in vertical clouds fully built for their use. For example, if your phone uses 5G from AT & T, Deuthe Telecom, Orange, SK Telecom, Commast, or Verizone, then your data and voice depends on open stack Clouds behind the curtain.
7. Digital sovereignty
If you are living in America, there is a possibility that you do not even know what digital sovereignty is. Outside America, this is a different story. Many countries, especially in the UK and the European Union, do not rely on the US-based cloud services. They are afraid, for the reason that their data cannot be adequately preserved.
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Our current government is not recently making friends abroad. As Gartner said, “Organizations will require data, infrastructure and important charge by control of external courts and foreign government. Gartner predicts more than 50% multinational organizations, which are digital sovereign strategies by 2029, which is less than 10% today.”
I think it will happen even faster than that. I spent a month in the UK earlier this year, and everyone in the cloud business talked about it. It is not just beyond the Atlantic. At the end of last year, Younghold Han, VP of Hyundai’s car Cloud, told me that Hyundai chose Openstack as it gave them control and protection that they needed to feel that their data was adequately preserved.
8. The rise of supercloud and user-centric design
Warning: More technical jargon is coming. However, Supercloud At least some useful describes. A supercloud provides a single interface or control aircraft for managing resources, workloads and data in all participating clouds. In this way, you do not need to learn unique front ends and application programming interface (API) of each cloud.
As you can imagine, this integration is not easy. Gartner believes that this will happen. So far, supercloud programs, such as Cloud of ice pieces data, Databric lakehouse platformAnd Del project alpineFor multicluds, some parts of the problem can be dealt with, but no one has licked the problem yet.
looking ahead
Gartner’s approach, reinforced by industry analysts and market data, paint a picture of a cloud ecosystem that is more integral to smarter, greenery and far more professional success than ever. As Rozas said, “Cloud will continue to unlock the new business model, competitive advantage and ways to get the business mission.”
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The organizations that suit these trends will be the best deployed to flourish in the cloud-operated future. Those who lag behind will fast in the cloud-tech-centric world.
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