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The Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, services and third-platform technologies are driving a massive transformation in the technology world. These changes are beginning to impact how organizations operate and do business and the onus is now on CIOs and other decision makers to upgrade their legacy systems and make some important changes to remain competitive and profitable.

AVI Networks has developed a next-gen application delivery controller designed to offer a single point of control along with integrated analytics for both on premises and cloud-based applications. Because the company works with a variety of systems and architectures, AVI understands the importance of migrating to next-gen networks in today’s technology climate. Based on observations of his own clients and partners, AVI CEO Amit Pandey has a few predictions about what will be happening in the technology adoption space in 2016.

“CIOs will have to adopt an app-centric mindset or end-up losing influence,” said Pandey. He believes the DevOps space and IT will become one and the same as applications continue to rule the day in IT. He added that CIOs will become increasingly focused on software-driven choices that are developer friendly and base on consumption.

Pandey also predicts that advances in data center architectures and design will enable enterprises to achieve the flexibility, agility and scale of public clouds within their data centers. Along the same lines, specialized hardware is no longer required for data center services, enabling enterprises to achieve a web-scale approach to their IT and networking architectures.

“Enterprises will seek (and find) hardware agnostic approaches to architect their data centers,” said Pandey. “Historically, such an approach has been confined to very large cloud companies like Google (News - Alert), Amazon, or Facebook. But with the performance characteristics now available in commodity x86 servers, the rise of the DevOps practices in enterprises, and software based application services, the architectural approach of the cloud giants will be available to most enterprises.”

Budget constraints are always an issue with any type of IT planning, and will ultimately scale back enterprise investments in traditional equipment and technologies. As CIOs understand the benefits of working with reliable and affordable OPEX (News - Alert) expenditures versus more costly and risky CAPEX expenditures, the enterprise will shift toward an application-centric approach to technology purchases. The prevalence of multi-cloud architectures and an increased need for a holistic management solution will also change the way CIOs spend their tech budgets.

Finally, security will play in important role in IT decisionmaking in 2016. As enterprises rely more heavily on the cloud for key applications and services, the fear over cyberattacks and data breaches will grow. Companies are undoubtedly going to demand more security assurances as well as more comprehensive monitoring and management as they make the transition to the IoT and a new digital technology age.