A top venture capital firm predicts these 8 trends will take over cloud computing in 2018

Bessemer

A chart in the State of the Cloud 2018 report shows all of the high-impact API-based companies in the cloud space.

Bessemer Venture Partners knows the cloud.

The Silicon Valley venture capital firm meets with over a thousand cloud companies each year and keeps close tabs on its dozens of investments in the cloud market. Just to round things out, Bessemer also researches 78 cloud companies that have already gone public, keeping tabs on their performance so as to better advise their still-private investments.

All of this data comes together in the firm's annual State of the Cloud report, which Bessemer published Thursday.

In the report, Bessemer investors Byron Deeter, Kristina Shen and Anna Khan share what they see in the year ahead for companies on the cloud.

Here's what they expect to see in 2018.