Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015: Emerging Trends Impacting IT
It's often been said that forewarned is forearmed. Nowhere is that more true than in IT. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015 this week in Orlando, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of Research for the Infrastructure teams at Gartner, offered up his top 10 emerging trends and their impact on IT. Read on for the low-down.
October 6, 2015
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It's often been said that forewarned is forearmed. Nowhere is that more true than in IT. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015 this week in Orlando, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of Research for the Infrastructure teams at Gartner, offered up his top 10 emerging trends and their impact on IT. Read on for the low-down.
The growing demand for access to networks and data means more hardware, software and services to make that happen. Gartner predicts server workloads to grow 10 percent, network bandwidth to grow 35 percent, storage capacity to grow 50 percent, power costs to grow 20 percent and I/O traffic to grow 75 percent—and these are all annual figures.
While the CIO still holds the most sway in corporate IT decision-making, CEOs increasingly are allocating more responsibility to COOs, CMOs and business unit heads, Cappuccio said.
Small devices, IoT, remote sites, latency-dependent services, geo-specific applications … all will be under the purview of the IT department. And it's IT's responsibility to ensure a decent customer experience. Is your network—and your department—ready?
The new data center is everywhere—on-premise, in the cloud, at hosted sites—which impacts the network in myriad ways. Cappuccio noted today's disparate data center should focus on delivering compute resources in the best way possible—and that involves rethinking how data centers work.
The brave new world of IT means best of breed, not best of brand, resulting in networks with multiple vendor technologies. As a result, sales is shifting from individual components to stacks, forcing IT vendors to ensure their technology play well with others. Same for IT departments.
With open source hardware, the sky's the limit for customized customer solutions. Shared interconnects and power feeds, combined with lower component costs, give open source hardware a leg up as compute demands increase. Designed to augment rather than compete with integrated systems, open source hardware can be an affordable and efficient alternative for micro or remote sites.
Here's a radical idea: Integrate IT continuity and disaster recovery, focusing on recovery time objectives and workloads simultaneously. IT service continuity incorporates location and networking options to create entirely new topologies, enabling service even in the worst of worst-case scenarios.
Now that data centers are no longer constrained to the company headquarters, it's up to IT to ensure efficient networking with minimal downtime. As such, predictive and—increasingly—prescriptive analytics will play a larger role in data center management.
Speed or security? That's often a question companies must grapple with in their IT plans. But a bimodal approach can offer both—keeping systems of record (security) in mode 1 and systems of engagement in mode 2 (speed). The result is an organization that is quick to move on new ideas while ensuring its most valuable data is safe from harm or failure.
As networks become more complex and new types of data become more ubiquitous, network monitoring becomes even more critical. The next phase of enterprise workload monitoring will emphasize faster change cycles and shorter development times, and will require new skills as end users increasingly drive the IT conversation.
As networks become more complex and new types of data become more ubiquitous, network monitoring becomes even more critical. The next phase of enterprise workload monitoring will emphasize faster change cycles and shorter development times, and will require new skills as end users increasingly drive the IT conversation.
It's often been said that forewarned is forearmed. Nowhere is that more true than in IT. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2015 this week in Orlando, David Cappuccio, managing vice president and chief of Research for the Infrastructure teams at Gartner, offered up his top 10 emerging trends and their impact on IT. Read on for the low-down.
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