Emerging Paradigms and Areas for Expansion

Cloud computing was born from the opportunity to open major distributed datacenters to end users to provide on-demand services, ranging from infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to software as a service (SaaS). The new pay-per-use business model is so appealing that we´re entering an everything-as-aservice (EaaS) era, extending the approach beyond existing borders-such as hardware-as-a-service (HaaS) and business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS)- to other areas and dimensions (robot-as-a-service, sensor-as-a-service, and so on). The cloud is like the Borg from Star Trek, making all resistance futile and assimilating all existing technologies and services. Emerging paradigms and technologies will have a major impact on society and industry. We plan to cover these paradigms in the “Cloud and Adjacent Technology Trends” area as well as provide a longterm futuristic vision of how the cloud will look and the new opportunities it will offer.