Which 5 IT areas look to prosper in 2013?
By Andre Carpenter, senior solutions architect
Here’s to 2013! It’s a very exciting time to be in IT—and especially in the storage, cloud and virtualisation space. Last year saw a massive shift in the IT landscape as CIOs really started to show interest in this thing we call cloud computing. More focus on how things can be done better and more cost effectively was one of the prominent drivers behind this surge in interest.
I’ve never deemed myself to be a fortune teller of any kind, but I guess in some wacky kind of way it is part of my role: possessing a grasp of what’s happening now and an ability to translate this and interpret the market to foretell what might be happening 6 months, 12 months, 18 months down the track. This is always a beneficial skill for any IT professional to have. This time of year, we see a number of predictions on market trends that appear to be obvious for 2013. Then there are some that may come as a surprise. So let’s take a look at some of the areas that I think will prosper.
Building storage for virtualization podcast from SNW
His session was titled "Keys to building the right storage foundation for virtualization". In my podcast with Michael we hit some of the high points of his session like:
- Michael's three virtualization truths
- Storage challenges resulting from virtualization
- Keys to building the right storage foundation, including storage architecture considerations
During his session MIchael also mentioned that HP 3PAR Peer Motion (our storage federation software that I recently demoed on HP LeftHand) now supports VMware and we talked about that. Here's the podcast with Michael:
HP passes EMC as the storage virtualization brand leader
