While at VMworld 2018, VMblog interviewed industry experts from a number of different vendors on the show floor to find out where they see the market headed in the coming years. 

In Episode Two, we speak with experts from Liquidware, Accelstor, Vembu, Veritas and Runecast and talk about various predictions and futures for the coming year within the IT industry. 

Runecast explores the Self Driving Datacenter (SDDC) and automation.  Veritas expands thoughts around public cloud agility and migration, but also discusses cloud repatriation as IT expands into a more hybrid type cloud world.  Vembu explains the differences between virtualization and cloud, and talks about how enterprises will continue to move environments to the cloud which opens up a huge market for backup and disaster recovery.  Accelstor describes the changes in storage mediums and platforms, with change and innovation coming, and storage arrays becoming more fluid with multiple vendors for the right job.  Liquidware explores the trend of defining success around end user satisfaction and user experience and where that is headed into the coming year and why. 

Watch and learn!

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