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I'm back from a couple of weeks of travel and most notably, the annual Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit (IOM) the first week of June. There were more than just a handful of aha moments, much churn in what has been a mature market and many great conversations on the solution showcase floor and hallways. Let's start with the opening keynotes on the first day:
10 Emerging Trends that will Impact Infrastructure and Operations - David Cappuccio
The trends are in last week's InfoWorld article, "10 for 2012: Gartner's Top Emerging Infrastructure Trends" and are as follow:
- Consumerization of the Tablet
- The Infinite Data Center
- Resource Management
- Mobility
- Hybrid Clouds
- Fabric Data Centers
- IT Complexity
- Big Data - Big Problems
- The End of Service Desks
- Virtual and Software-Defined Networks
David opens with the statistic of >75% of IT budgets are spent just keeping the lights on, operating, not driving the company forward. IT didn't see (or didn't want to see) the tablet coming to the workplace. Just 5 years ago 1G of storage cost $7995, today it is 25 cents - that was yesterday! and I was 2 years away from my first cell phone, still had a pager! We have LOTS of data to secure, not hardware or devices to manage, the focus must shift from the device to the information and data. The Cloud will replace storage from the PC / Workstation to be accessible from any device, anywhere.
Read the whole article here, in the NetIQ Qmunity >
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