The Future of Server Hosting – The Cloud Will Take Care of Itself

We all know that virtual server hosting is the future of all computer technology, and it has certainly made business IT easier, cheaper and more environmentally friendly. But server hosting is now here to stay. Virtualisation has been predicted to rise in 2010/11 and the market has already shown prominent signs of this. James Urquhart now delves even further into the prospects of the future, and he has already offered his opinion is his latest writings: “The Future Cloud Should Fend for Itself” (CNET, August 2010).

 

 

Field technologist and cloud computing market strategist, Urquhart has expressed many times that the opinion he shares are always, strictly, his own. But with insider knowledge and experience, his views have a certain weight among the tech world. His views on server hosting in years to come is that there will be self-configuring clouds, and this is, in his opinion, the logical next step.

 

Is it possible that as the world of server hosting develops, so will its intelligence? Is it feasible that the cloud will develop smart behaviour learning algorithms, and is this something that we would want? The article, “The Future Cloud Should Fend for Itself”, discusses the possibility of an adaptive server hosting system through contextual analysis.

 

 

To some, this idea could seem a little bit mad.  But we have been depending on automated systems for many years in communications and other areas of technology. In the end, the benefit of reduced costs could be the decider. For now, server hosting isn’t quite there yet with self-configuring systems, but the cost savings are simply astounding for modern businesses through the introduction of cloud computing technologies.