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Ovum's Integration Middleware Global Market Forecast Model estimates that the spend on cloud-based integration platforms will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 31% between 2012 and 2018, reaching $3.7bn by the end of 2018. Over the same period, spending on cloud-based integration platforms in the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions will grow at CAGRs of 27% and 44% respectively.

Evangelising development on any cloud computing or enterprise platform is challenging, costly and takes a unique skill set that can educate, persuade, sell and serve developers at the same time.

In my role as a globetrotting cloud consultant, I continue to be amazed at how many executives still favour private clouds over public. These managers are perfectly happy to pour money into newfangled data centres (sorry, "private clouds"), even though Amazon Web Services and its brethren are reinventing the entire world of IT. Their reason? Sometimes they believe private clouds will save them money over the public cloud option...

As public cloud computing gains greater adoption across enterprises, there's an increased level of spending occurring on infrastructure-related services, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Enterprises are prioritising how to get cloud platforms integrated with legacy systems to make use of the years of data they have accumulated.

At the end of November 2012, Amazon Web Services (AWS) held its first partner and customer conference in Las Vegas. Dubbed AWS "re: Invent", the event was a success. and it enabled AWS to assert itself as a large and influential player in the IT marketplace.

New platforms and services, announced this week by Amazon at its first ever “re: Invent” user conference this week, will help fill out and add connective tissue to the various AWS platforms and services. Now that Amazon is automating data flows, it should take the next step and add integrated SQL views to NoSQL data stores, something that other providers are already pursuing.

PaaS is today where cloud computing was in 2008/2009: poised for growth, subject to increasing hype, and expanding from an original focus on public clouds to private ones.

What are IT professionals valuing, using and potentially considering? This infographic from Insight Cloud Computing Solutions sheds some light on the issue.