The three major trends in the IT industry of 2014 are noteworthy

Christmas is also a good time to review the past year and look to the evolving field of information technology in 2014. Here are three trends that people should pay close attention to in the new year.
1. In view of the NSA surveillance scandal exposure, businesses will be cautious about cloud services For most enterprises, 2013 is a year of cloud services. Businesses that are still hosting their own in-house e-mail basically hand over the bill and the growing burden to other companies. Microsoft SharePoint and other knowledge management solutions can run in other companies' data centers and use the resources and time of other companies to manage them, much like using their own employees to improve their services and directly enhance their business. However, Edward Snowden disclosed in June this year that the NSA was able to monitor communications. At first, most people did not panic about it. Over time, however, the ability of the NSA to monitor communications with or without knowledge of service providers began to shake the confidence of many CIOs about the risks and benefits of applying cloud services. For businesses in tightly regulated industries, it is hard to overlook the ability of the National Security Agency to read the data being transmitted or stored. Are patient privacy records, sensitive financial transactions, and any other data that must be kept confidential by law now also considered confidential? Can you warrant your regulators? You can afford NSA to visit you Is this a risk that you can take control of or ignore and hopefully for the best results? In 2014, we see how meaningful it is to continuously analyze what services are available in the cloud. Due to the constantly exposed NSA sniping scandal, services that are easily implemented, such as e-mail and collaboration, are no longer considered services that can easily benefit users. Perhaps cloud services are no longer the default choice of the future, but rather a choice made after careful research using the exposed "prisms" as an important environment.
2. Microsoft Finding New CEO to Determine Microsoft Products in Future Organizations One of the most important news stories in the first half of 2014 will undoubtedly be Microsoft's choice of its third CEO in history. This is one of the most important positions in the technology industry. Choosing who to do or what to do on the first 100 days of his or her tenure will set the tone for the next five to 10 years. As of Monday morning after Thanksgiving in 2013, the Microsoft board has narrowed the list of potential CEO candidates to two: current Satya Nadella, head of Microsoft's server and tools division, and Ford Motor Co. The company's current president Alan Mulally. There are two main issues surrounding these two CEO candidates and the immediate actions they will take following their inauguration. First, the new CEO will continue to implement the strategy of turning Microsoft into a device and service organization? Microsoft's current CEO, Steve Ballmer, has managed to transform Microsoft from a software company into a production tablet and Mobile phones and other equipment company. These devices will connect to Microsoft-run services. Not only will these devices make content richer and more useful to end users, they will also benefit from enhanced upgrades, advertising revenue, and subscription profits that Microsoft can make from the use of those devices. This, of course, represents a tremendous shift from the traditional "pay us a royalty for this software" fee, which is driving Microsoft's current business, to the present heightened level. Many investors and clients wonder if this shift is in their favor. Will the newly elected CEO continue this shift and continue with Ballmer's strategy after his retirement, or will the new CEO suspend the transition and take months to assess whether the shift benefits Microsoft and its customers? This answer has a significant impact on the role that Microsoft software and technology will play in your business. Second, the cloud is still Microsoft's focus? Microsoft continue to give priority to developing cloud-based services rather than prioritize the development of traditional software installed within the enterprise will damage the trust of business users do? These enterprise users currently installed for enterprise software license There is still a lot of investment. This tension is especially evident in the Exchange community. There, users of Exchange Server 2013 feel that they are behind the cousins ​​of the Office 365 subscription data center environment. For some time, users have complained about bad patch quality and escalating Office 365 features from time to time without upgrading Exchange Server 2013 features. Customers of software installed in-house pay thousands of dollars for servers and clients to use these software. They feel that their investments have not been rewarded properly. Will this tension extend to other areas? Is Microsoft's cloud focus a new paradigm for Exchange and is it a new trend to focus on in 2014? 3. Cloud broker roles will emerge in 2014 No matter what Microsoft does WHAT, Whatever the implication of what the NSF Prism program exposes to your business, continuing to promote consumerization means that organizations will apply more cloud services rather than less cloud services. Prism may reduce e-mail and other data traffic to cloud services, but other less-sensitive data will still be stored in the cloud. Enterprise IT can take advantage of many cloud services designed to save money and reduce data access costs.

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