{"id":5451,"date":"2013-01-18T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/jan\/18\/cloud-and-business-technology-trends-to-watch-in-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-01-18T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T10:30:00","slug":"cloud-and-business-technology-trends-to-watch-in-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-and-business-technology-trends-to-watch-in-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud and business technology trends to watch in 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>In 2013, IT buyers will be looking for increased stability and better ways to prepare for the next five years in their business cycle, according the the latest market study by Ovum.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The fact that we live in very uncertain times makes investment decision-making even more difficult. With continuing instability across the global markets and even in locations with historically robust growth &#8211; such as China and India &#8211; the outlook for IT services in 2013 is unpredictable,&#8221; said Jens Butler, principal analyst, IT Services at Ovum.<\/p>\n<p> Ovum believes that business leaders will be looking for greater reliability in their IT usage and &#8211; as a consequence &#8211; seeking stability, capability and accessibility among their external service providers.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Growing trend towards cloud applications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Moreover, Ovum has published three &#8220;Trends to Watch&#8221; reports on cloud computing &#8211; which reveals that 2013 will see managed cloud services continue to grow rapidly. <\/p>\n<p> Their Private and Public Clouds report &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, IT buyers will be looking for increased stability and better ways to prepare for the next five years in their business cycle, according the the latest market study by Ovum.  &#8220;The fact that we live in very uncertain times makes investment deci&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}