During the past decade, cloud computing has seen wider utilizations across the world, a trend that will undoubtedly continue for the foreseeable future. The continued, rapid growth of cloud computing should not come as a surprise to anyone because as time progresses the strengths of cloud computing become more potent for a variety of reasons. According to a report from Flexera, an American computer software company, enterprises who have already been using cloud computing for a few years have been noted to be extremely efficient due to how experienced they are in comparison to other business who have just started using cloud computing (Gavlov). Another prediction made by Flexera is related to small businesses, specifically how 78% of them, no matter what type of cloud deployment they prefer, will fully adopt cloud computing by 2020. Even government organizations are undergoing changes as a result of how widespread the use of cloud computing has become. Although a vast majority of government organizations, which usually spend between $2 million and $3 million per year for cloud services, favor using private clouds, this is beginning to change. Experts of the Macquarie Government have observed that there has been a large increase in the number of government organizations who use the SaaS of a public cloud. Based on this observation, they have predicted that until 2021 the adoption of private cloud services in the public sector shall increase at twice the rate of the public cloud (Gavlov). These impending changes in cloud computing serve an indicator that cloud computing has not reached its full potential in regards to how integrated cloud computing will eventually become in the lives of many.
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