According with Peter Levine, a general partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the increased computing power of intelligent Internet of Things devices, combined with ever-increasingly accurate machine learning technologies, will largely replace the infrastructure as a service public cloud market. The cloud as its know today is a “very centralized model” of computing, Information is sent to the cloud where it is processed and stored. Many applications live in the cloud and whole data centers are being migrated to it. Levine says we’re already starting to see signs of Internet of Things devices replacing some of the computing power of the cloud. There are smart cars, drones, robots, appliances and machines. Each of these devices collects data in real time. “(Given) the latency of the network and the amount of information, in many of these systems there isn’t time for that information to go back to the central cloud to get processed,” he says. So, he argues, the edge of the network will be forced to become more sophisticated. He adds: “This shift is going to obviate cloud computing as we know it.”Take a self-driving car as an example. It needs to be able to identify a stop sign or a pedestrian and act on that information instantaneously. It can’t wait for a network connection to the cloud to tell it what to do. This new world will not eliminate the need for a centralized cloud, Levine says. The cloud will still be where information is offloaded to, where it is stored for long periods of time and where machine-learning algorithms get access to the vast troves of data they need to become ever smarter.
I also think that there is a periodic change in centralizing and decentralizing. New technologies usually enable new methods to manage and process data. In the past the decentral managed early computers developed from central main frames, decentralized to desktop computing power, centralized storage, decentralized with big data to decentralized and clustered methods. More effective devices will be replaced by cloud services offering computing power and centralizing data management and processing - at the moment.
Now the decentralizing trend should start up again - proofed by decentral organized communication in IoT devices, autonomous vehicles, etc.
I think the next technology will be an ad-hoc cloud. Flexible clustering of information and processing, likely to swarm intelligence communication and self-organizing architectures.
Legacy data centers will not help, said Mohindroo. Neither will it recreate the local complexity in the cloud. It is time to think in new ways, as illustrated by Uber and Lyft redefining transportation, and Airbnb transforming the hospitality industry. That is why many experts think that it must be transformed or die. Here I leave the name of an article that deals with of that Cloud Computing Technology for 2018 Transform or die