2016 was a landmark year for big data with more organizations storing, processing, and extracting value from data of all forms and sizes. In 2017, systems that support large volumes of both structured and unstructured data will continue to rise. The market will demand platforms that help data custodians govern and secure big data while empowering end users to analyze that data. These systems will mature to operate well inside of enterprise IT systems and standards.
Here’s a quick question for small- and medium-size business owners: Does your company have a website? Online businesses obviously need websites for marketing and selling products or services, but even brick-and-mortar business need to be discoverable via the Web. It’s 2017, not 1985; the days when yellow pages listings were the pinnacle of business discovery are long gone. Nowadays, people discover new businesses via Bing, Google and Yahoo, search engines that make it a breeze to find companies’ operational hours and prices…
The only thing constant is change, and these 10 IT trends coming to data centers through 2017, including open standards, require preparation.
This past year has seen a surprising amount of change in the storage sector. The EMC/Dell merger placed a spotlight on the future of cloud computing and new technologies like machine learning and AI are putting greater emphasis on metadata and in-memory storage than ever before.
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