Five most noteworthy IT infrastructure development trends

Five most noteworthy IT infrastructure development trends

Bkjia.com quick translation] In 2016, the total IT budget for the world is expected to be equal in the previous year. For most CIOs, this means they must find the most scientific way to control the limited economic resources.

Fortunately, there are already a series of infrastructure technical achievements that can bring more reasonable ROI. Some of these projects have the potential to create new value, and some of them can help us significantly reduce infrastructure operation costs.

In addition to infrastructure, data security is another key issue worth attention in the new year. In 2015, a large amount of money has been invested in the cloud security field. This year, more expenditures are expected to be used to update outdated Internal security tools.

In today's article, we will focus on the five major infrastructure development trends and learn how they help CIOs put their IT budget to the most rewarding level in the next 12 months.

1. hyper-converged

Hyper-converged trends have significantly affected future IT planning in the First Half of 2015. The IT department is interested in using software solutions to virtualize servers, storage, and network resources, and this interest is expected to continue in 2016. These technical achievements can significantly simplify the configuration and maintenance tasks of the data center and greatly reduce the long-term operation costs of the infrastructure.

2. Collaboration

Our users finally have the necessary technical skills to understand the benefits of collaborative products. Technical vendors are also able to ultimately organize collaboration tools into a complete suite to further improve our production efficiency. Voice, HD video, communication, and document sharing mechanisms can now be easily implemented in the conference room, in the office compartment, or even on smart devices. If it can be pushed to end users in an appropriate way, the Enterprise Collaboration solution can be an excellent cost-saving project.

3. 802.11ac WiFi

In recent years, WiFi has become the preferred solution for most enterprises to achieve wireless networking of terminal devices. In fact, the popularity of WiFi is so high that even a system that has just been deployed for a few years cannot cope with the enthusiastic access of employees. There are three reasons for this phenomenon:

First, Wi-Fi deployment is designed to focus on wireless coverage rather than transmission capacity. As more and more employees bring personal devices into the enterprise environment, wireless access points must further shorten the distance between each other to significantly improve the capacity of wireless devices.

Second, we can see that the latest 802.11ac access point can provide more substantial transmission bandwidth, so that more users can smoothly connect to Internet services.

Third, many Wi-Fi architectures must be re-designed to eliminate possible bottlenecks when wireless data is sent back to the central wireless controller. The new architecture will discard the returned data to eliminate such potential wireless data bottlenecks. For friends who are still using the 802.11n network to support the increasing demand for device networking, the recently released 802.11ac Wave 2 hardware will be able to achieve a real return on investment in 2016.

4. Next-generation firewall (NGFW)

If your enterprise does not adopt the next-generation firewall solution as a boundary and internal key block point, so be careful-we expect the market growth rate of the Next Generation Firewall Service to surge in the next few years. It can combine traditional firewall rules, intrusion protection system (IPS) Signatures, Deep Packet detection, application recognition, and global threat intelligence, thus, a new network boundary that is far higher than the traditional architecture in terms of security level is established. This mechanism that can quickly detect and adopt automated security response means will become the focus of implementation in the New Year.

5. Identity and Access Management

The concept of network access control (NAC) is no longer a new topic. However, in the past, network access control tools were not only difficult to use, but they could not cover all users. However, as time passes, security tools and mobile device management (MDM) solutions have now been integrated to possess wired and wireless devices that are connected to specific network resources, remote users are also subject to strict authentication, monitoring and approval. These technological achievements are now collectively referred to as identity and Access Management (IAM)-IT businesses are expected to see strong growth in the next few years.

Obviously, there are many other technical solutions that are worth the attention of CIOs. The specific direction depends on your actual needs. In general, any infrastructure project that can help us cut costs or improve data protection effectiveness should be included in the to-do list. Maybe the five technical projects we listed here are not enough to be listed in everyone's 2016 wish list, but they show at least considerable development potential.

So where do you plan to spend this year's budget? Will you consider deploying some of the infrastructure solutions? Do we ignore some of the core technical achievements that seem to you to be more important? Please share your insights in the comment bar.

Original article title: IT Infrastructure Trends: 5 Worth Watching

Bkjia.com exclusive translation. Please specify the source for reprinting on the Cooperation site]