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6Nothing makes your business more portable than cloudcomputing. It would be possible to port your data and applicationsanywhere in the world and all you need is a computerconnected to the internet. Backup and recoverymeasures might be fully loaded onto cloud based platformsthanks to the convenience offered by it; case in point, GMOCloud’s add-on services on top of their IaaS offering.Software development companies will be stressing the importanceof the cloud like never before. They can get teamsof engineers to work together from every corner of the globeand this kind of collaboration would help develop softwarecomponents quickly and efficiently.Bring your own device or BYOD is going to be the talk of thetown in 2013. We are seeing a paradigm shift in work culturewhere the freedom and power of IT are actually givento users via a web based interface. No longer is there demandfor complex hardware for working on complex softwareproducts.Open source cloud computing platforms may see a wholenew dimension of demands as they have demonstratedtheir ability to rival proprietary competitor platforms.They’ve also shown their flexibility in supporting a plethoraof services, not to mention the huge support they offer toanyone using it courtesy of its open source tag.As far as service delivery is concerned, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models will continue to improve and providefaster and less expensive user experiences via simpler interfaces.The number of platforms that can be used to accesssoftware as a service would increase withsmartphones embracing cloud based applications as wementioned earlier.All in all, 2013 will be an exciting year for business enterprisesthat rely on the cloud. ■About MandiraMandira Srivastava is a fulltime freelancewriter who specializes in technology,health and fitness, politics,and financial writing. Equipped with adegree in mass communication, shehas worked for both private and corporateclients.W W W . L O G I G E A R M A G A Z I N E . C O M F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 3 ǀ V O L V I I ǀ I S S U E 1