From Analytics to Virtualization: Change Is Afoot in 2015
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Smaller, Newer Vendors Will Emerge Within Big Data and Analytics
By offering solutions that are more relevant to a broader range of business users, these vendors will challenge established providers while accelerating innovation and product differentiation. -
Customers Will Benefit From Greater Data/Analytics Ease-of-Use
Successful vendors will make this possible by combining innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of things and the semantic Web. -
The Hybrid Cloud Will Transform into "Hybrid IT"
Businesses will want a holistic IT environment that connects a single management solution to tools, whether they're hosted, on-premise, virtualized, physical, cloud or traditional. -
Strategic Cloud Partners Will Gain Competitive Edge
Customers will expect more than elasticity, utility pricing and deferred capital investment, pursuing partnerships that can help them achieve business goals through superior end-to-end performance, enterprise visibility and accountability. -
Cloud Providers Will Need to Enable Self Service
Users will want to monitor the network and data center services proactively to support secure, multi-tenant, real-time performance and assurance reporting. -
Cloud Providers Will Align Margin Assurance Within All Operations
That's because they're seeing rising costs as data volumes increase from the rollout of new network technologies, resulting in flatter revenues. To reverse this, margin assurance solutions will apply analytics to find ways to maximize profits. -
The Data Center Will Go Virtual
Going beyond virtual servers, business will adopt other virtualized infrastructure—like storage, network, load balancers, firewalls and desktops—to build a software-defined data center. -
Security Vendors Will Focus on Full Endpoint Visibility
Cyber-attackers are growing more adept at exploiting "gray" areas underserved by various security technologies. To counter this, customers need diagnostic breakdowns of network-connecting endpoints for real-time assessments of their attack surface. -
Next-Generation Firewall Will Protect in Broader Fashion
Businesses will demand a solution that functions across cloud services, mobile devices, apps and virtualized environments. -
Broadband Regulation Will Emerge as "Topic A" for Telecom Debate
That's because of increasing federal efforts to impose net neutrality rules on broadband access and to regulate the Internet as a public utility.
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Why Metrics Matter to the Channel The IT industry is expected to tackle a number of formidable challenges in 2015, according to a recent forecast from Frost & Sullivan. Upstart analytics solution providers are apt to be more nimble—and responsive to user requirements—than established, larger ones. On the cloud front, big changes are under way; strategic partnerships will be increasingly important in the cloud world. Additionally, the "hybrid cloud" is morphing into "hybrid IT." In the data center, virtualization will be more widespread. Also, security vendors continue to work hard to address pain points. The following 10 selected IT industry predictions from Frost & Sullivan convey a sense of urgency to recognize and effectively address customers' fast-shifting tech needs, while still making a decent profit. "Change is having a major impact in all aspects of the [technology world], which will certainly expand as new ideas and concepts coalesce in 2015," the report reads.