The tremendous and transforming power of cloud computing fills technology and business headlines at a rapid pace, and continues to impact every industry from small to large.  Cloud offers a solution to every industry vertical.  Before we give examples of how different industries and companies may benefit from adapting to cloud, here are five cloud trends we believe you will observe in 2013.

• Accelerating growth of public cloud and even higher diversity for private cloud and hybrid cloud options. Cloud providers are improving their services. This year we will see cheaper, faster, and easier to deploy cloud applications and services.

• Thousands of new applications will be built from scratch for the cloud. As the market will grow, these apps will become more segmented, and will approach different verticals.

• As we see more segmented solutions, new leaders will appear in each segment. Many of them will drive traffic and customer away from generic solutions.

• Cloud consumption will go from early-adopters to main-stream. Majority of companies will start using cloud services as a strategic investment and competitive edge against their competition. According to 2011 IBM institute study, 92% of mid-size businesses will invest in the cloud within the next 36 months.

• More pre-packaged options to enhance security for cloud application – encryptions, password protection, hack-watches, scraping data protection, etc.

The cloud represents a genuine transformational shift in the way many businesses have started to operate.  Already, the cloud has brought us a first crop of billion dollar products like Facebook, Dropbox, Salesforce, Yammer, Instagram, and Box.  We believe that cloud platforms will undergo further segmentation as specialized cloud solutions will appear for many key industry verticals to meet the high demand in cloud.

Here are four industries that are moving more into the cloud:

 

Many companies have found a variety of uses for cloud, making their companies more efficient and effective.  In the future we see that cloud services will provide more customization to fit these industries and their unique needs.

Utilizing the cloud has obvious benefits.  It increases cost savings, improves efficiency, as well as offers better storage possibilities, enhanced security, and process consistency.  The best way to save time and money in the near-term is to purchase cloud vertical solutions – targeted to the needs of specific segments.

2013 is an exciting year to witness the changes and improvement in cloud for all industry verticals.  Cloud has yet to reach its full potential, but is making advancing strides.

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Andrey Nokhrin is the Founder and CEO of BuildersCloud a start-up in Bellevue Washington.  BuildersCloud is a platform created uniquely for the needs of the construction industry.  These features include sharing massive data between devices and multiple groups, zero latency information exchange, and real-time collaboration.

Andrey brings over six years of experience in construction, with BuildersCloud being his third company.  While targeted mostly to large enterprise builders, the value is beneficial to individuals as well.   Allowing the ability to organize, share, and work with construction documents more effectively. Visit www.builderscloud.com to learn more and sign up for a free trail.