As cloud adoption is escalating with a rocket speed, the user’s expectations are also increasing. The Virtual Public Cloud (VPC) is the ultimate solution.
Companies expect quick analytics on their data lakes; also want to take advantage of containers for their applications. Some of the key trends likely to happen in 2021 according to Dipti Borkar, co-founder and CPO of Ahana are:
Kubernetes for Multicloud and SaaS.
Kubernetes is gaining popularity which is not new, but what is new is figuring out how to implement containerized workload in the multi-cloud environment. Companies have already started to run container workloads in a multi-cloud environment as they are shifting towards the multi-cloud approach. When Hadoop comes into play, it was very heavyweight and also not very container friendly. Technology such as Presto has the potential to easily containerize using Kubernetes. Kubernetes is widely used by user-oriented SaaS, whereas data infrastructure focusing SaaS applications have not adopted Kubernetes as aggressively. Managing containers is not at all a piece of cake.
The In-VPC Deployment Model
People will prefer to store their data in their personal cloud account as they can control it easily. When it comes to data focussed managed service, there is a high possibility of cloud-native architecture emerging, It is the “In-VPC” deployment model. The control plane in this model is separated from the system and data planes. Here the control plane (delivered as SaaS, running in the vendor’s VPC) will manage the external environment of the computer and data (where your computer and data reside, running in a customer’s VPC). Because the vendor computer is brought to the user’s data it can never see any data of the customer.
The Open Analytics stack
In the past few months alone we have seen a speedy increase in cloud adoption, but still analyzing data in the data lakes is yet a problem. Data lake analytics is a complex process. In order to overcome this challenge in 2021, we can expect more and more companies to choose an open-source approach for analytics. This open analytics stack will use open source technologies.
The above mentioned three approaches are likely to dominate 2021.
