According to foreign media reports, the focus of IT industry development this year mainly in mobile devices, cloud services, social networking and big data and other fields. By 2013, there will be further acceleration in these areas as new products for most companies will move from testing phase to deployment phase.
Here are the six technologies that will be rapidly evolving in the enterprise IT space in 2013:
Big data
By 2013, many companies will continue to increase their investment in database and enterprise intelligence tools to accelerate technological innovation and improve the efficiency of business execution. Big data technology will bring maximum impact on the financial industry, medical industry and scientific research.
As a new generation of technology architecture, Big Data technology can efficiently search, extract and analyze valuable data in a large amount of data. In 2010, major corporations invested in big data amounting to 3.2 billion U.S. dollars. According to IDC, by 2015, big data investment will reach 16.9 billion US dollars, an annual growth rate of 40%, for the entire information and communications technology industry growth rate of 7 times. As big data will grow faster than the supply of talent, companies may turn to cloud services to relieve IT's internal pressure.
In the big data investment, software and services dominate the business will be faster infrastructure construction. IDC said that by 2015, enterprises will achieve the fastest storage investment, the CAGR will exceed 61%.
2. Software defines the network
On the network side, Software Defined Networking (SDN) will improve the preparation process for enterprise products before they become operational. A complete process takes about five years to integrate the software to define each part of the network and to integrate management systems, software, high-level management products and network protocol integration technology. In 2013, companies will begin developing technology professionals in software-defined networks to prepare for the industry.
Memory calculation
With the support of companies such as SAP and Oracle, many organizations are more likely to be on the sidelines of software-defined networking and are more likely to treat memory as a mainstream technology. In the next two years, many companies will provide memory computing solutions, the technology will gradually become the mainstream. Memory computing technology brings the dataset closer to the compute engine, which traditionally takes a much slower pull of information from a separate server's database. Memory computing will bring instant feedback of transactional and application analytics in the same memory, which will dramatically increase the speed at which businesses can process their data.
4. Social technology-driven business collaboration
In the company, employees' use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter will drive the drive for companies to build their own social networks to ensure business collaboration and data sharing. IDC predicts that by 2013 these networks will go down to testing and put into practical use.
In the meantime, similar enterprise app stores will also appear, providing applications for smartphones and tablets. By 2014, there will be companies that launch proprietary software stores, which avoids the hassles of multiple payments and authorizations with public store applications.
5.Windows 8 will not be much welcomed by the business
In 2013, Windows 8 will not make a big splash in enterprise applications. By 2015, 90% of enterprises will not be large-scale operating system upgrades. Many companies are not yet ready to use Microsoft's flagship touch screen interface unless Windows 8 support is gaining popularity in the business technology market.
6. Gamification will be successful
The relevant technology of attractive online games will be adopted by enterprises to evaluate the performance of employees in order to improve the working efficiency of employees, which also links the performance of employees more closely with the revenue of enterprises. By 2016, the output value of gaming technology and services will increase from 242 million U.S. dollars this year to 2.8 billion U.S. dollars. In three years, 40 percent of the world's top 1,000 companies will adopt gamification technology to improve their business performance and operational efficiency.