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Contributed article by Satyam Vaghani, Co-founder and CTO of PernixData
Things that will NOT Happen in Technology in 2014
With 2014 right around the
corner, it's time for technology leaders to make their predictions for the year
ahead. But PernixData's co-founder and CTO, Satyam Vaghani, decided to do
things a little differently by predicting the things that will NOT happen in
the coming 12 months. His UNpredictions are below...
Policy-based infrastructure will NOT move
the needle enough for applications to optimize themselves
The Holy Grail
for any IT executive is to optimize all of the applications throughout the company
in a manner that is ideal for each individual application. Policy-based
management of data center infrastructure is often touted as the way to achieve
this. Unfortunately, we've not yet reached the point where policy engines are
real enough to tweak infrastructure to meet application needs. Contrary to what
vendors claim, we are not close to having policy-based, self-optimizing infrastructure
that can adapt to the needs of each application it encounters.
Advice for 2014: Expect to spend
a human capital optimizing the infrastructure for applications.
Big Data will NOT be easy in 2014. Every company wants to make faster, more
intelligent business decisions by analyzing larger volumes and new types of
data. However, the business logic, implementation, and success factors of big
data solutions vary wildly between customers and industries. Consequently, big
data has become more of a services business than a technology business. Don't
expect an off-the-shelf solution to fit your business needs.
Advice for 2014: Big data has a lot of promise in terms of giving companies
insight into their operations, customers and business. But expect to spend a
lot of time, energy and money to understand and utilize big data, and even more
to operationalize solutions around it.
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About the Author
Satyam Vaghani, Co-Founder and CTO of PernixData, was VMware's Principal Engineer and
Storage CTO where he spent 10 years delivering fundamental storage innovations
in vSphere. He is most known for creating the Virtual Machine File System
(VMFS) that set storage standard for server virtualization. He has authored 50+
patents, led industry-wide changes in storage systems and standards via VAAI,
and has been a regular speaker at VMworld and other industry and academic
forums. Satyam received his Masters in CS from Stanford and a Bachelors in CS
from BITS Pilani.