Future of Cloud
Tags: cloud, discuss
Published: 2020-05-29 07:57:27

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description: Will cloud technologies be enough in the next decade ?
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> How I see it, when the cloud reaches its limit, it'll fall down on our heads as rain. ©AliAlp

**Will cloud technologies be enough in the next decade ?**

For years, we have been using the cloud as an **unlimited pool of storage and computing resources** which is **globally and always available**. However, after decades of storing and storing, soon we will face with some serious issues :

- Cloud will run out of data storage space
- The world will not be able to provide enough energy to keep the cloud running.

## Year 2020

Currently, we have Amazon, Microsoft and Google (The big guys) to handle our big data storage and processing. Conceptually:

```bash
More Money => More Resources
```

**Unlimited Resource Pool**, the main objective of the cloud is to be seen as an unlimited pool of resources(CPU, RAM, DISK, Network). As a matter of fact, the cloud consists of a tremendous number of nodes (each node can be a cheap and simple computer machine). The cloud providers are constantly adding more nodes to their data centers to create the illusion of the **Unlimited Resource Pool**.

**Fault Tolerance**, hardware always fail, sadly, the only way we know to deal with the hardware failure is **Hardware Duplication**. We store the customer's data in three or four or five or even more different physical storage devices(Depends on how much the customer payed or can pay).

> The trend of adding more hardware to the cloud will continue to rise, either for supporting more customers or a better fault tolerance.

## Year 2033

- The energy consumption and environmental pollutions have passed its critical levels.
- The data size has reached alibyte(I've coined the name for every 1000^50 Bytes. In 2020 the highest data size is [yottabyte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yottabyte) which is 1000^8 Bytes).
- The conflicts between the countries are 13(2033-2020) times tenser.
- Data centers are the new banks.
- Storage is the new currency. you may get paid in Bytes.
- Data is the new Gold.
- Your internet profile is more real than your real character.
- A Hacker is more valuable than a F-35 fighter jet.
- GSM sim-cards are extinct; your phone is only connected to the national-cloud.
- And I am 50 years old. (Possibly?! :)

Consequently:

- Countries have their own data centers and cloud, which is called **National Cloud**.
- Independence means the **National Cloud** is covering the demands of the nation.
- Wealthy countries are independent.
- The poor countries are using the wealthy countries' National Cloud.
- National Clouds of different countries can communicate but only with the governmental agreements and authorizations.
- Grid Computing is alive again and it is the new backbone of the inter **National Cloud** communications.
- The cloud that we know in 2020 is dead.
- To call your friend abroad over the internet, you have to pay extra fees (**Internet Roaming**).

> How I see it, when the cloud reaches its limit, it'll fall down on our heads as rain. ©AliAlp