IT industry in the next few years, the development of the ten trends

Trends in cloud computing, big data, and fabric data centers have revolutionized the way IT workers work, at the same time bringing with them some new challenges.

Dave Cappuccio, Gartner's Vice President of Management, gave us an overview of the top ten IT industry developments in the coming years in the IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit, held some time ago:

1, Consumerization and flattening: The emergence of iPad makes this portable device infiltrated into the enterprise. The development of the tablet makes IT have to reconsider how to develop applications to handle a specific job. Cappuccio said: "A huge suite from a manufacturer is about to be made

Step on those applications that are designed for specific functions, local features. Although not yet a substitute for PC, but is expanding, there are some unique. "

2, unlimited possible data center: Cappuccio said: As the economic downturn, to the data center budget is also reduced, so there is a "reuse" trend. However, investing in new, energy-efficient servers can reduce operational expenses and increase computing costs

ability. So even medium-sized data centers can keep the same space while saving significant amounts of money annually.

3, resource management: If you just hold the "bad before repair" mentality operation and maintenance, then in the end you have to spend more money, because the server slows down resulting in lower efficiency. The new server uses half the energy, but occupies a smaller, more capable, and therefore needs to be updated. Virtual

The load on the server can be easily increased with less energy consumption.

4, mobile and private cloud: Private cloud will replace the PC, users want at any time in any hand the device to access data and applications. Cappuccio said: "Customers are the dominant IT, IT can not stop the tide of personal devices into the workplace, but it can be the right place to go."

5, Hybrid Cloud: In 2013, 60% of enterprise IT cloud purchases will be in the form of existing applications. In 2014, 80% of the cloud will tend to be private and hybrid. The business will explore what its own key business and what parts can go into the cloud. "Non-essential non-critical operations can be handed over to others."

Fabric Data Center: Fabric computing will lead to the development of "resource pool" straight-line development, knowing that the computing power to create the other pool. The server will become more like the components in the IT rack as part of the fabric. The idea is "to build an environment that is easy to grow, manageable in theory, and focus on verticals." In the future, fabric environments will be able to migrate workloads to different clusters based on IT-established rules.

7, IT complexity: The increasing complexity of the technology, which means that IT need more "generalists" or broad-based experts, rather than just focus on storage, networking or applications.

Big data problems: Excessive data, sometimes in bytes, is mostly loosely structured, making it harder to access information and to discover firsthand opportunities that competitors have not been able to get.

This trend has drawn special atten- tion from attendees who think of strategies for mastering big data in order to analyze the types of data that can be detected in real time and that can enter the cloud.

An IT source said he was resolutely opposed to whether or not the Tera-byte is worth the switch, and he is a network administrator who claims he will never allow such a thing to happen, even on a disaster recovery level. Rather than putting large amounts of data on the web, they prefer the traditional delivery model "Sneakernet," a traditional artificial network.

9, there will be no help desk: customized arrival allows users to choose crowdsourcing support, you can directly online help. In today's BYOD environment, device support responsibilities will be obscured.

10, Virtual and Software-Defined Networks: Networks need to support more devices, and it gets more complex with indications that software-based networks will be developed in a matter of years and heterogeneous devices may be managed by software. Flexibility is also an appealing factor as the load can be automatically migrated based on rules.