Council Post: Serverless Cloud Computing Will Drive Explosive Growth In AI-Based Innovation

As we look back at the past decade of innovation in the private and the public cloud space, led by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM, the most significant emerging trend we see is the drive toward serverless computing and the appliance model. In the initial days of cloud computing, companies used cloud as a substitute for their colocation facilities and/or data centers. There were certain incremental benefits to this approach. One benefit was moving capital expenditure away from an equipment model to an operational model. Another was arriving at a service model where the cloud providers themselves take care of software updates, which was especially true with companies like Microsoft and Oracle.