Channel Futures' 2023 Cloud Outlook: Inflation Won't Slow Adoption

It’s that time of year again, the time to prognosticate about the future of various technologies. For this edition, we bring you 2023 cloud predictions. Of course, it’s hard to say exactly what will transpire over the next 12 months, but the cloud computing experts we’ve included here all have feet-on-the-ground expertise. They’ve long been part of a market that Gartner projects will exceed $600 billion this coming year alone.

Channel partners, then, will be interested to know where they should be focusing. As one hint, even though inflation is pressuring customers to really scrutinize their technology spending, cloud computing adoption shouldn’t suffer. Our 2023 cloud predictions go into more depth on that point.

Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of our 2023 cloud predictions is the lack of forecasting about new products. As evidenced by 2022’s AWS re:Invent, cloud computing is reaching a point of maturity. Vendors aren’t so much developing new platforms as they are honing and expanding their existing ones (again, we present the absence of significant new news at re:Invent, the industry’s largest gathering, as evidence). There are, certainly, some exceptions to that but for the most part, cloud continues to come into its own.

With all that in mind, we invite you to mull over Channel Futures’ 2023 cloud predictions. See the slideshow above to get started.