[November 29, 2016] |
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Dimension Data Publishes IT Predictions for 2017
Dimension
Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, today
published its top
IT predictions for 2017, and the focus on digital is set to remain
the key trend in the industry for the next 12 months.
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Dimension Data's (News - Alert) Chief Technology Officer, Ettienne Reinecke says
digital is about building truly customer-centric business models on IT
including the network, data centre, applications, and other
infrastructure - which may be on-premise, or cloud-based. "Today,
there's no such thing as a digital strategy - just strategy in a digital
world. And while the digital age is creating a degree of uncertainty for
some organisations, it's also opening the doors to exciting
possibilities and ushering in an era of infinite potential."
Reinecke cites ownership and access to data - and metadata - as a
key theme. "In the year ahead, control and ownership of data and
metadata will emerge as a point of discussion - and indeed contention. That's
because data and metadata are the 'gold dust' that allow organisations
to glean rich insights about customer behaviour. In addition, metadata
allows organisations to identify specific behavioural patterns, derive
business intelligence, and make informed business decisions," Reinecke
explains.
As a result, organisations are becoming increasingly protective of their
metadata, and wary of who has access to it. "Organisations don't just
want ownership and control of their data for compliance reasons: they
want it to perform analytics. We expect that this will trigger some
interesting discussions between businesses and their cloud providers.
For example, where are the boundaries with respect to ownership,
especially around metadata. We foresee this issue resulting in a bit of
'push and pull' among the various parties."
Other IT trends that Dimension Data redicts will make their mark in
2017 include:
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Intelligence
is driving the predictive cybersecurity posture
Cybercrime is
big business. Over the last few years, cybercriminals have been
re-investing much of the ill-gotten gains into developing more
sophisticated capabilities, using more advanced technologies. Despite
ongoing innovation in the cybersecurity industry, much of the effort
remains reactive. Cybersecurity will become more predictive, rather
than proactive.
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Machines
are being embedded in the workspace for tomorrow
A new
generation is starting to show up at work, and they're not
millennials, or even Gen Z: they're machines. And it won't be much
longer before holographics, augmented reality, and virtual reality
begin to move from B2C into B2B. Also, over the next two to three
years these technologies will drive a fundamental transformation of
the workspace.
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The
Internet of Things is delivering on the promise of big data
IoT
will deliver on the promise of big data. Increasingly, big data
projects are going through multiple updates in a single year - and the
Internet of Things (IoT) is largely the reason. That's because IoT
makes it possible to examine specific patterns that deliver specific
business outcomes, and this has to increasingly be done in realtime.
This will drive a healthier investment, and faster return in big data
projects.
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Container
technology is the new disruptor in the data centre and a key enabler
for hybrid IT
In 2017 we'll see more widespread
adoption of containers, but the transition to a fully containerised
world will take few more years. In addition, we'll see increasing
adoption of network function virtualisation (NFV) when cloud-enabling
existing networks, and for new networks to be architected with hybrid
cloud in mind.
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