eWeek recently conducted an interview with Simon Aspinall, chief of vertical markets, strategy and marketing at Virtustream. He identified ten market forces that are influencing enterprise cloud computing this year:

1. Heightened security, compliance issues remain top concerns.
2. Data protection techniques drive national clouds.
3. Merger and acquisition activity continues to heat up.
4. OpenStack is not yet ready to be welcomed by the enterprise.
5. Rigorous demands will drive competition away from OpenStack.
6. Division will drive specialized clouds.
7. The cloud market is growing at unprecedented rate.
8. Mission-critical apps are being transferred to clouds.
9. Performance enhancements are driving efficiency.
10. Cloud brokerages will be in high demand.

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