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Recap of 116 Virtualization and Cloud Predictions for 2014 - Find Out What Executives had to Say in VMblog's 6th Annual Prediction Series

2013 was another truly amazing year for the virtualization and cloud industries. And I'm excited that I was once again able to be a part of it. With every new year, we grow our fantastic community... and I expect 2014 to continue that trend.

At this time, I'd like to personally thank everyone for being a valued member and reader of VMblog! Once again, with the help of each of you, VMblog has been able to remain one of the oldest and most successful virtualization and cloud news sites on the Web -- providing readers with valuable information in these expanding markets for the last 10 years! Now that's impressive and exciting!

I also want to make sure to thank my sponsors over the course of the year, without whom, none of this would have been possible. They help keep the lights on at VMblog. And many of them have been with me for quite a few years, so thank you! Acronis, Citrix, CloudByte, Cloudyn, CommVault, DataCore Software, Dell (VKernel), Embotics, FSLogix, HotLink, Liquidware Labs, Parallels, PHD Virtual, SolarWinds, Splunk, Symantec, Tegile Systems, Veeam, VMTurbo, Zenoss and Zerto.

This was the 6th year in a row that VMblog has published its fun and successful Executive Prediction Series. It keeps getting better every year; and as we wrap up and conclude this year's predictions, we hit a new record of participation! The series had a whopping 116 companies participate and share their predictions for the year, and I'm thrilled with all of these quality submissions.

Folks, strap in, raise and lock your seat trays, and put your seats in their upright position. And let's take off with 2014!

To kick things off, here is a wrap up of the prediction series in a single post. If you didn't have a chance to keep up with the entire series throughout the months of November and December, now is your chance to catch up and read what these experts had to say about their predictions for this year. Enjoy!

PHD Virtual 2014 Predictions - Organizations with Virtual and Cloud Environments Get Serious About Improving Disaster Recovery Preparedness

Recently a group of executives, including myself, formed a new council whose aim is to increase disaster recovery preparedness and improve disaster recovery practices. The idea is to study current DR practices and develop DR standards and best practices for the industry to follow. Our initial resear... Read More...

Parallels 2014 Predictions – Cloud Management Platform Leaders Continue to Evolve

The market for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is projected to grow dramatically, with Parallels SMB Cloud Insights research predicting cloud-based IaaS revenue will double in the next three years, from $15.8 billion in 2012 to $31.3 billion in 2015. Increasing demand from service providers for a... Read More...

Veeam 2014 Predictions - Forget virtual first, now it's virtual only!

Each year when we take a look at what has transpired, we also stop and think what may be coming in the future. In 2014, I'll go so far as to say that it may be the year of 100% virtualized for many people.... Read More...

Zenoss 2014 Predictions - Why 2014 is the year of the Software Defined Data Center

The New Year brings upon thoughtful considerations about what the tech industry has done and where it is going. As we look back on a year of growth for virtualization, mobility, and the cloud, we also look forward at how this growth will affect modern datacenters.... Read More...

CommVault 2014 Predictions: What's on the virtualization menu for 2014 – Critical applications, cloud choices and a side of VM sprawl

It's hard to believe that a year has passed since we were sharing our 2013 predictions, but the time has come again to look into our crystal ball and see what the virtualization and cloud industries have in store for 2014.... Read More...

HotLink 2014 Predictions: In 2014, Hybrid IT Will Dominate Deployments

The cloud predictions that have dominated the news over the past several years are, in fact, materializing in real-world IT deployments across organizations large and small. While it doesn't take a lot of sage-like vision to forecast rapidly growing public cloud use - whether sanctioned or unsanct... Read More...

SolarWinds 2014 Predictions: Commoditization Allows Innovation

In preparation for the annual VMBlog Prediction Series, I sharpened my pencil and reviewed my list of forward-sounding acronyms to determine what to keep and what to throw out. The choices are still vast: SDN, SDS, SDDC, VDI, SSD, SaaS, IaaS, AWS, NSA and WTF. A few of these are clearly in the “that... Read More...

FSLogix 2014 Predictions - This is the year for DaaS! Or is it?

I'm starting off my 2014 predictions like I do every year, by calling the Atlanta Braves as the winners of the World Series. Eventually I'll be right, like the last time they won in 1995, and when I do I'd like to have it in print somewhere. I was going to make a prediction about Bitcoin at $800, ... Read More...

Nexius Solutions 2014 Predictions - The Year of the Network Operator Cloud

2014 will be the year of the network cloud for operators, where services lead software in a valued virtualization market. This means more focus on network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN) along with the growth of unified communications as a service (UCaaS).... Read More...

STORServer 2014 Predictions for Data Protection of Virtual Ones and Zeros

As 2013 winds down, we are seeing a greater adaption of virtual technology that enables data and applications to be more mobile and flexible. Your mail server is no longer directly tied to a vendor's hardware, and instead, can be moved from machine to machine with little to no downtime. This allows ... Read More...

RiverMeadow 2014 Predictions - Cloud Migration Takes Center Stage in 2014

Cloud computing is revolutionizing nearly every business model. Today, it's not a matter of if but when a company will convert to cloud computing. Gartner recently found that by 2016, cloud computing will become the bulk of new IT spending and by the end of 2017, nearly half of large enterprises wil... Read More...

Plixer International 2014 Predictions: The Year of Greater Application Performance Insight

The steady virtualization of more applications is increasing the need for greater insight into the performance of each business application. 2014 will be a year when network administrators seek more in-depth performance metrics that answer tough questions such as:... Read More...

NuoDB 2014 Prediction - The Breakout Year for Geo-Distribution

New technologies can be intimidating, because we all fear the unknown, and we especially don't want to put something untested into the beating heart of our employer's infrastructure. But clinging to the past is not the way to go. It's a dead end. New requirements emerged over the past ten years an... Read More...

Primary Data 2014 Predictions: Forget about hardware, it's the data that matters

Now that the hype surrounding cloud and BYOD is starting to slow down, these two mutually reinforcing trends will become the norm and drive actual change in 2014. Spurred by ease of cloud access and employees carrying their own powerful compute devices, enterprises will reach a tipping point where t... Read More...

FairCom 2014 Prediction: The Rise of Mobile Analytics – Merging the Cloud and Data Access for Better Executive Decisions

With the emergence of smartphones and tablets, executives are becoming more accustomed to having mobile access to increasingly sophisticated personal and productivity applications.... Read More...

SmartDeploy 2014 Predictions - Leaving Windows for Cloud Services

We sit in a corner of the IT management world that gives us a unique perspective. We work with businesses battling the traditional set of problems in IT management-but our perspective is also colored by seeing businesses grapple with an entirely new set of challenges, ones that rise and evolve quick... Read More...

Cortado 2014 Predictions - App Virtualization is a PC-Only Event

There are still those who don't want to come to terms with reality, but the truth is that Apple's iOS 7 has lead to the death of app virtualization, more specifically app wrapping, on post-PC devices.... Read More...

Electric Cloud 2014 Predictions - Delivering Applications for Tomorrow's Enterprise Cloud

It's no doubt that cloud has moved into the enterprise mainstream. As the world we live in becomes more connected through cloud and mobility, 2014 will be the year that organizations start to transform their business through the cloud. While CIOs once looked at the cloud as a way to reduce costs, m... Read More...

Acronis 2014 Predictions: Security Demands to Drive Innovation in Cloud Storage

What was once thought of as an innocent and efficient way to store information is getting a new look in 2014. The ‘Cloud' has struggled through a turbulent year: its name was slandered when Nirvanix closed its doors and Snowden's ‘escape' to Russia did little to ease concerns over information securi... Read More...

Nuance 2014 Predictions - Maturing Cloud Will Bring Wide-Reaching Impact to Businesses in 2014

As we approach 2014, cloud technology is poised to impact a number of areas that are top-of-mind for organizations of all sizes. As businesses are increasingly focused on mobility and security with the proliferation of various new devices and the transition to a BYOD workplace, the cloud is uniquel... Read More...

Synata 2014 Predictions - Hybrid Saas Deployments: The Future of the Enterprise Cloud

It's an interesting time to be in the enterprise cloud business. Countless cloud startups are developing intuitive products due to the low infrastructure costs and barriers to entry. End-users are eating them up. Dropbox just hit 200 million users - you can bet that wouldn't have happened if they ha... Read More...

ManageEngine 2014 Predictions - Mobilizing the User Experience Monitoring, Advancing Automation and Beyond

For many IT organizations, 2014 is going to bring a renewed emphasis on refining their network and data center operations to ensure they deliver the best user experience possible. From our perspective, then, 2014 trends will include:... Read More...

Mushroom Networks Cloud & Virtualization Predictions for 2014

We have lived through multiple cycles of technology moving towards centralized computing and cycles moving technology towards computing at the edge. So far, we have yet to see super computers managing all of our computations and feeding them to dumb terminals in our offices or at home. Similarly, we... Read More...

Adallom Predictions 2014: Safe Harbor and Device-less Malware

In response to PRISM and the general malaise created by NSA revelations, 2014 will see an outcry and demand for Safe Harbor-like regulations in the United States, just like the significant push for regulation seen in the European Union. This will impact what employers can and cannot do in terms of m... Read More...

Inktank 2014 Predictions - Open Source will Dominate the Infrastructure Stack in the Corporate Data Center

The coming year will see an increasing demand from customers who want to run their data centers along "webscale IT" practices, but the challenge will be how to provide environments that work simultaneously for legacy applications and new cloud-native ones simultaneously. Whatever technologies are ch... Read More...

KeyNexus 2014 Predictions - Standardization of cloud-based encryption will drive innovation in key management solutions

In 2013, cloud security was discussed extensively by the industry, but major implementations of encryption in the cloud are still relatively immature. While security risks to data continue to increase, cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers are realizing end users will demand more robust s... Read More...

Extreme Networks 2014 Predictions - SDN Brings Radical Changes in Network Management and Control in 2014

Software Defined Networks (SDN) made serious traction within the industry this year, evolving from trend to reality. SDN is all about increased agility and lower operational cost through automation and orchestration with the rest of the IT infrastructure, as well as increased visibility and control ... Read More...

ServiceMesh 2014 Predictions - Regulated Enterprises Lead Renaissance of Innovation with Cloud Computing

In the IT industry, change is constant. The ebb and flow of disruptive technologies is a cyclical phenomenon, advancing in fits and starts across the IT landscape. Yet every so often a wide set of disruptions mature together, bringing with them the opportunity for wholesale IT transformation. In the... Read More...

Bromium 2014 Predictions - What's a Hypervisor?

What a busy year of cloud we have had! 2013 was surprising because of the staggering rate of adoption of public cloud services by enterprises. No longer is it a matter of "if" enterprises will use 3rd party clouds, but "when" and for "what workload." The single most important piece of news was the s... Read More...

Violin Memory 2014 Predictions - The Future is Persistent Memory

For the past decade, the speed at which businesses run has been tethered to the standard storage solution - mechanical disks. The problem is the growth of the world's data will not be able to be provided in real-time if the standard continues. Disk is highly failure prone, costly and the performance... Read More...

Netuitive 2014 Predictions - Business Value Dashboards Providing New Levels of Visibility in IT Monitoring

I recently came across Gartner research authored by analyst Colin Fletcher about the emergence of Business Value Dashboards (BVDs) that are replacing today's conventional executive dashboards. When analyst research mentions a developing IT trend, I take note. But I pay special attention when my own ... Read More...

Visage Mobile 2014 Predictions - Telcos Come to Roost and Data (Finally) Makes Sense

Having spent the better part of my career in mobile, it pains me to say that 2014 will be a relatively status quo year for mobile. It's been a while since we've seen anything really transformative come out of mobile. On the consumer side, developers continue to fight the feature/function battle. On ... Read More...

Ciena 2014 Predictions - The year the 'Telco Cloud' starts to take shape

Over the past several years, "The Cloud" has become so mainstream that even my parents have heard the term and can appreciate the essence of its value. To date, the predominant cloud services have been SaaS, PaaS and IaaS - Software-, Platform- and Infrastructure-as-a-Service - that enable enterpris... Read More...

TwinStrata 2014 Predictions - Bold Predictions for Cloud Storage

2013 was a breakthrough year for cloud storage. A recent survey showed that 60 percent of businesses decided to store their data in the cloud, and the benefits they've begun to realize range from cost and time savings to maintenance-free storage infrastructure.... Read More...

Convirture 2014 Predictions - Applying the Lessons of Alice in Wonderland

I see a three-step transition that will occur in data centers that applies no matter what the size. To illustrate the points, we can use what Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland in 1865. (Who would have thought that would apply when we look at the future of data centers and cloud computing?)... Read More...

CloudHealth Technologies 2014 Predictions For Cloud

The early cloud was a jumble of established tech giants and startups, with Amazon pushing IaaS, Microsoft / SalesForce pushing PaaS, and a host of startups offering a mixed bag of services in between. In the end though, Cloud 1.0 was defined by the market share winner, Amazon, and was defined as: on... Read More...

Midokura 2014 Predictions - Wheel of reincarnation makes another turn in 2014

We're back in an increasingly shared-resource, time-sharing-like (aka cloud) world, so we will start to recognize all of the implications in the networking and application realms. Wheel of Reincarnation was a phrase used in computer graphics where systems designs swing back and forth like a pendul... Read More...

Oracle 2014 Predictions: The Rise of Ready-Made IT

The idea of "ready-made" is moving from its predominantly food-related past to make its way into the world of IT. First, "TV dinners" led the way to ready-made dinners and a billion dollar business was born. Then the notion of pre-mix, pre-assembled ingredients became appealing to save time, cost, a... Read More...

Clustrix 2014 Predictions – SQL is Cool Again and In-Memory Gets Real

In 2012, the IT industry saw enterprise adoption begin for a new generation of scale-out databases - NoSQL, Hadoop and Distributed SQL (or "NewSQL") - that are purpose built for scale-out cloud infrastructure. We summarized this trend in a recent blog post to help sort out where all these new databa... Read More...

Biscom 2014 Predictions - Moving Forward in 2014 and Beyond: Where Virtualization and Faxing Meet

In 2014 and beyond, we will see virtualization and faxing meet with more emphasis on faxing. You may ask: "Do people still fax?" The answer is, they absolutely do, in greater numbers each year. What's changing is that they're not faxing from fax machines anymore-they're faxing from desktops, email-t... Read More...

Bain Capital Ventures 2014 Predictions - Predictions from a Software Infrastructure VC

I'm one of two Managing Directors in Bain Capital Ventures' new Palo Alto office, which has made more than a dozen sizable investments (not counting seeds) in less than two years. With approximately $4B under management and offices in Palo Alto, Boston and New York, we're the venture arm within Bain... Read More...

Astute Networks Top Three Predictions for 2014

Most professional recognize that when you power off a server, whatever is stored in the server's DRAM is lost. Needless to say, this can result in data loss unless the contents of the DRAM have been committed to storage before "lights out."... Read More...

GigaSpaces 2014 Predictions - Eight Cloud and Big Data Predictions

Prediction has always been a fun exercise. It forces you to take a step back from your day to day activities, look at the market "crystal ball" and figure out what the future looks like. This year I found this exercise to be particularly difficult as the amount of new innovation and conflicting tren... Read More...

PEER 1 Hosting 2014 Predictions - 2014 Will Be the Year of the Smart Dedicated Server

I think we can all agree that 2013 was the year of cloud computing. We've seen a significant spike in the number of public and private cloud deployments, and revenues for everything from hardware to cloud-based CRM platforms are on the rise. With that escalation in cloud implementations, we've learn... Read More...

HyTrust 2014 Predictions - Cloud Security in 2014

In 2014, organizations will discover the importance of BYOS for public cloud. Given the recent disclosures about government access to cloud service provider networks, we'll see further investment in key management systems that allow organizations to keep control of their encryption keys themselves v... Read More...

PernixData 2014 Predictions - 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 ar... Read More...

CA Technologies 2014 Predictions - In 2014 Cloud Computing is So Last Year

Let's face it. Cloud computing just isn't that exciting anymore - mainly because it's no longer something people feel compelled to debate or question. Not only do we continue to hear of success in the cloud, but recent studies have shown that cloud computing is exceeding expectations, especially for... Read More...

CohesiveFT 2014 Predictions - Amazon will lead, but the gap is closing

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the public cloud Amazon has built up since 2006 has continued to dominate the market. Both technology features available and user base lead the competition. Gartner analyst Doug Toombs writes that AWS have over "five times the compute capacity in use than the combined to... Read More...

eG Innovations 2014 Predictions

At eG Innovations' we believe that getting the user experience right will be critical in 2014 and will become a key success factor by which IT success is measured. Application Performance Management (APM) including mission-critical applications will be virtualized faster than ever, while return on i... Read More...

CloudVelocity 2014 Predictions - AWS Will Enter the Hybrid Cloud Market

Last year, I predicted that Amazon will "acknowledge the hybrid cloud", so this year I'll take it a step further and predict that they will enter the hybrid cloud market in 2014 with new products and a shift in strategy. That shift will center around DR and storage, and will be in response to antici... Read More...

Continuity Software 2014 Predictions - Best Practices Verification and Compliance Automation to Become Top Priority in 2014

Verifying and complying with best practices across an entire IT environment has never been more challenging. Today, virtually every enterprise data center is composed of a vast array of heterogeneous technologies from a host of different vendors, with each providing its own highly detailed Best Pra... Read More...

Sanbolic 2014 Predictions - The Year VDI Meets SDS

There's little argument amongst IT professionals that the adoption rate of desktop virtualization in the enterprise environment has yet to meet the levels anticipated by pundits for the past several years. However, given the many advancements in this technology and the most recent product releases f... Read More...

NetIQ 2014 Predictions - Make Your Cloud Conversations More Meaningful in 2014

Cloud computing has clear advantages: speed of deployment, flexibility, reduction in management costs, scalability of services and others. While these benefits may seem self-evident to technologists and engineers, there is a widening gap between the language of IT professionals and business users wh... Read More...

Scale Computing 2014 Predictions - The Year of Reality in Production IT Environments

VDI...not THE YEAR! But it evolves... It will never be THE YEAR of VDI, because the use case for it is very vertical specific. We have seen a great deal of traction in the healthcare and education market, and it makes sense in these verticals. Also, there are many more cost-efficient alternati... Read More...

TriCore Solutions 2014 Predictions - MSPs Rise to Prominent Role in Cloud Ecosystem

Many initially believed that cloud computing would put MSPs out of business. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, MSPs, and in particular managed application service providers, are poised to become critical players in the cloud ecosystem.... Read More...

Incapsula 2014 Predictions: DDoS ups its game in 2014

As we hit the home stretch of 2013, we look forward to the next year and make predictions about what's to come. While you can never be certain what's lurking around the corner, often the best barometer of the future is the past. This is undoubtedly the case when it comes to cybercrime, which is more... Read More...

Stratus Technologies 2014 Predictions: Five cloud predictions you may not have considered for 2014

Tired of the cloud-washing that's gone on over the past year? You're not alone. Some claim cloud computing has been around forever - even going as far back as the digital computer itself. So nothing is really new, right? Wrong.... Read More...

SafeNet 2014 Predictions: Multi-Factor Authentication Trends for 2014

I have been in the Identity Management and Authentication business for more than two decades and the shift I am seeing toward user authentication technologies and adoption of cloud over the last few years is truly fundamental. While many of these changes have been evolving for some time, I believe ... Read More...

SwiftStack 2014 Predictions: Cloud storage technologies become even more open in 2014

Open storage technologies are not new. Odds are the cloud storage that you and those you know are using today is open source software on standard hardware. To say more business data will go to the cloud is not so much a prediction as it is a certainty. I predict we will see new options feeding the ... Read More...

Zadara Storage 2014 Predictions: Enterprise Cloud Floodgates Open, "as-a-Service" Reigns

We've heard it before, but this time it's for real. The year 2014 will see enterprise applications move to the cloud en masse, and the data center itself become more like the cloud.... Read More...

Virtual Bridges 2014 Predictions: What to Watch for in 2014

A study conducted earlier this year noted that 70 percent of users now carry three or more devices - including laptops, thin clients, iPads, tablets and more.... Read More...

CA Technologies 2014 Predictions - Widening Skills Gap, IT's "APPetite", Experience-Centric Everything and More

In 2014, IT will become the glue between the business and the services it provides that drive competitive advantage, create new market opportunities, and ultimately, that help organizations keep their edge. CIOs must become more comfortable giving up control, bringing together third-party and in-hou... Read More...

Red Hat 2014 Predictions - Promise Turned Into Reality: Enterprise IaaS Adoption in 2014

It seems like we've been extolling the virtues of IaaS in the enterprise for years, but much of that has been centered around promise, rather than reality.... Read More...

LANDesk 2014 Predictions: The Year IT and the User Become Friends

When you look at the issues that IT administrators are coping with - BYOD, cloud, consumerization of IT - it often boils down to a struggle between two essential needs: that of the user to work the way that's most productive for that individual user, and that of IT to maintain security and control o... Read More...

JumpCloud 2014 Predictions: DevOps and the Cloud

2013 seemed to be the year that DevOps has come into its own and get recognized as a serious movement. Here are some of our predictions on how that might continue into 2014.... Read More...

CiRBA 2014 Predictions: Software Efficiency, Multi-Hypervisor and Software Defined Challenges to be seen in 2014

In 2013, organizations turned their attention to the problem of over-provisioning, and explored the levers that enabled them to move to the next level of operational maturity and efficiency within virtualized infrastructures, and of course, the cloud.... Read More...

Pluribus Networks 2014 Predictions - Vendor Lock-Ins on Data Center Top-of-Rack Access Will Begin To Crumble

As most of you have already noticed, these are exciting times for the networking industry. In this article, I will look at Data Center Top-of-Rack (ToR) Switching, driven by the gradual adoption of 10GbE in the server access, which, I believe, has been the most dynamic and innovative segment of the ... Read More...

VaultLogix 2014 Predictions: SMBs to Rapidly Adopt Cloud-Based Data Protection for Newly Virtualized Environments

Small to midsized businesses (SMBs) are adopting server virtualization at a pace even more rapid than larger companies. According to a survey by Techaisle published earlier this year, 29% of SMBs in the US expected to have implemented server virtualization in 2013. Nearly a quarter of those organiza... Read More...

Cumulus Networks 2014 Predictions: The Beginning of a Truly Open Networking World

This was the year the white box genie got out; the year when most companies vied to announce how open and Linux-focused they are; the year when software really defined networking, if not always the way many predicted.... Read More...

Jamcracker 2014 Predictions – The Year of Agility in Enterprise IT

We've seen a lot of companies adopting cloud services in 2013, but as this adoption continues, there is a need for companies to transition their business model to improve service efficiency and capitalize on its benefits. In 2014, I predict we will see the following transformations within cloud serv... Read More...

Mirantis 2014 Predictions: Three OpenStack Predictions

Its the end of the year and everyone is getting into the fortune-telling business. As an OpenStack insider, I wanted to join the party, so here are some predictions of my own:... Read More...

CloudSigma 2014 Predictions: Hybrid Solutions, Private Patching Mean Bright Future Ahead for Public Cloud

With practically any technology that stands the test of time, there is an evolutionary process during which the original concept is modified to fit the demands of its users. After all, people's needs and wants change with time, like anything else. Technology has to keep up with users as much as user... Read More...

OnApp 2014 Predictions: cloud becomes everything as a service

Most people are sick of the hype around ‘cloud', but the good news this year has been a shift away from cloudwashing to focus on the real value that cloud can deliver. While the hype will probably be with us for a few years yet, I think the cloud as-a-service model will slowly but surely become the ... Read More...

Gazzang 2014 Predictions: Four cloud security-related predictions for 2014

2013 will no doubt be known as the year in which the topic of data security left the datacenter and moved to the boardroom. From Edward Snowden and the NSA, to mass data breaches at Twitter, Facebook, Adobe and The New York Times (just to name a few) - one thing is clear, these security stories aren... Read More...

Egenera 2014 Predictions: A Whole New World of Specialization

Economic theory defines specialization as a method of production where a business or individual focuses on the production of a limited scope of products or services in order to increase efficiency within the entire business. While the concept of specialization has been around for centuries, the las... Read More...

CloudPassage 2014 Predictions - Security will continue to be the primary cloud adoption concern

Cloud is still relatively new technology and, for most organizations, largely unexplored territory. Although the draw of inexpensive compute power, rapid scalability, and elastic utilization will continue to draw the enterprise to cloud, like moths to a flame, security concerns stand resolute.... Read More...

WildPackets 2014 Predictions - The virtual blind spot is coming. Are you ready?

In 2013, organizations saw the proliferation of virtualization as well as an increase in higher speed networks, forcing them to reevaluate how they manage and monitor their IT infrastructure. As a result, we predict 2014 will be the year of the "virtual blind spot," areas of application traffic that... Read More...

VMUnify 2014 Predictions - Three Cloud Predictions for 2014

Cloud Platform Consolidation: This is the beginning of the consolidation around the following three as the platforms of choice for the Infrastructure offerings in an Enterprise and Service Provider world:... Read More...

Ubuntu 2014 Predictions: The Cloud Gets Interchangeable Parts

Last year, all corners of the tech industry proclaimed that 2013 would be the year cloud computing truly took hold in the enterprise. Those predictions have proven more or less correct, and despite adoption challenges in highly regulated industries, cloud based technologies are now a mainstay for en... Read More...

Hostway 2014 Predictions: Six Predictions for Virtualization in 2014

In light of a dynamic market with continuous product development and the emergence of new players, here are our predictions for virtualization in 2014.... Read More...

Axway 2014 Predictions - Advancements in Cloud and Virtualization will Enable Organizations to Embrace the API Economy

The explosive growth of social media, cloud computing and mobile devices has fundamentally changed how people are interacting with organizations. Today, businesses can generate revenue, engage customers and collaborate with partners through entirely new digital channels, and the key to enabling thes... Read More...

Zettaset 2014 Predictions - Hadoop: An Era of Enterprise-class Security is about to Begin

The majority of today's data is unstructured, meaning it is raw and disorganized, and until the data can be organized into a structured format for analysis it cannot be a source of useful information. Hadoop has become an increasingly popular option to process, organize, and store huge amounts of da... Read More...

NComputing 2014 Predictions

The nature of computing today continues to change and evolve at rapid pace and there are no signs of it slowing down any time soon. This is driven by the fact that the modern workplace is becoming increasingly mobile due to globalization of the workforce, work from anywhere requirements, and growing... Read More...

Avaya 2014 Predictions: The Rise of Communications Technology Expectations

In 2014, I think we will see a greater response to how the workforce is changing, specifically in terms of employees' expectations of communications. The Millennials are the single largest demographic at the moment. In less than ten years, the generation has penetrated the working world, now compris... Read More...

Zscaler 2014 Predictions - Mobile Devices Present the Weakest Link in 2014

As 2013 comes to a close, we have witnessed a number of significant cyber security stories, issues and trends pushed to the forefront of mainstream media, including attacks on the very mainstream media itself. Reports of well-organized Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) abound from abroad, underscor... Read More...

AlgoSec 2014 Predictions - Cloud Security Predictions

2013 was the year that virtualization and cloud migrations large scale trials began to take root. As more organizations begin to leverage the many operational and financial benefits of the cloud - whether private, public or hybrid - the next logical step is to enhance cloud security.... Read More...

VMware 2014 Predictions: Virtual Crystal Ball Gazing

It's that time of year again! Time to start wrapping up the current year, along with the gifts, and begin to think about the next year in earnest. Such exercises are of course risky, but also fun. And in truth, this is a useful forcing function. Maintaining a perspective and driving strategic t... Read More...

SnapLogic 2014 Predictions Across the Cloud

We haven't seen a more exciting time in enterprise software in a long time. Cloud, Social, Mobile and Analytics are truly changing the way enterprises are approaching and conducting their business today. Because data and application integration technologies are regarded as key enablers of these tren... Read More...

Open-Xchange 2014 Predictions: Forget Native, More Applications Will Move to the Browser

As we all know, the web today is no longer confined to users' desktop or laptop PCs. In fact, IDC estimates that the connected device market will exceed 2B units by the end of 2015, attaining a market value of $735.1B, with tablet sales surpassing PCs annually by 2015.... Read More...

Paessler 2014 Predictions - Challenges and Changes in Virtualization and Monitoring

As 2013 comes to a close, it's natural to reflect on the main trends IT has faced over the year, and what will likely be in store going forward. For IT, arguably the biggest impact was caused by SaaS/Cloud. Using cloud based IT products is a great way of reducing the efforts one must make on premise... Read More...

Datadog 2014 Prediction: host-level management becomes irrelevant

As we look back on 2013, the shift to cloud computing dominated tech headlines. From our vantage point at Datadog, where a large number of our customers extensively use cloud-based infrastructure, we observed these movements to be quite tangible: A number of Global 2000 firms that we work with are a... Read More...

BMC Software 2014 Predictions: Consumerization of IT Driving Significant Change

The continued consumerization of IT is presenting countless challenges and opportunities for IT. BYOD, data integration and cloud computing are just a few. As we look to 2014, here are some of the changes I see developing throughout the year.... Read More...

Citrix 2014 Predictions: 2014 will not be the year of VDI

It's time to say goodbye to a cherished annual tradition: declaring the coming year the "Year of VDI." Oh, don't get me wrong, VDI deployments will grow, use cases will expand and it will become a solid player in IT's desktop portfolio but it's not going to be the end-all, be-all solution. For reaso... Read More...

CopperEgg 2014 Predictions - Nine Predictions that will Shape the Application Management Landscape

It's no secret that savvy businesses are moving their high-value applications to the cloud. What may be a surprise, however, is how the shift to cloud-based services puts end-users increasingly in the driver's seat -- upending traditional approaches to application management and the vendors that del... Read More...

Citrix 2014 Predictions for Enterprise Mobility

Every year, many of the mobile pundits publish their predictions for mobility for the next one to two years. The end of the year is a fun time to look back and see what occurred, but also a great opportunity to look forward to.... Read More...

ForgeRock 2014 Predictions: Shifting from a "castle defense" to a mobile offense security model

The modern Web has enabled companies to create better relationships with customers andpartners by offering them easy access to company data. It has prompted a shift in the enterprise, making organizations more open but at the same time, they expect the same level of security. In 2014, I predict that... Read More...

ScaleOut Software 2014 Predictions - The Year of Convergence for In-Memory Computing, Big Data, and the Cloud

In 2013, the growing potential for synergy between cloud, big data and in-memory computing began to be realized. Looking to 2014, we expect this exciting technological intersection to open up new capabilities that were previously unavailable and transform the way developers perform data analytics.... Read More...

Tintri 2014 Predictions: Flash, private clouds, VDI and application-centric storage

As the New Year quickly approaches and we wrap up 2013, there are a few things that come to mind when predicting the hot trends for 2014. Here's my take on what you should expect in the coming year.... Read More...

CenturyLink Cloud 2014 Predictions: Enterprise buyers step to the forefront, while PaaS sheds its unfortunate name

With the end of the year buzz around predictions, it's hard not to join in the conversation. Our CenturyLink Cloud leadership team came together for a few predictions for the year ahead - and to show we are keepin' it real, we scored last year's predictions as well.... Read More...

Bluelock 2014 Predictions - Exec Provides 5 Predictions for Next Year

As the cloud market matures there will be some churn in the space, but mostly through consolidation and recalibration. While some smaller companies may fall away or run out of fuel, larger companies are recalibrating their objectives. They may be spinning off new business units or recalibrating thr... Read More...

Evolve IP 2014 Predictions - Implementing Strategies vs. Solutions

As 2014 approaches, organizations are faced with some difficult decisions when it comes to selecting the right technical business tools to facilitate growth. However, no decision is more critical than evaluating an overall strategy versus buying a product or solution that may only address immediate ... Read More...

Cloudscaling 2014 Predictions - These Aren't the 2014 OpenStack Predictions You're Looking For

Prediction pieces are _always_ wrong at some level, and often they're wrong in important ways that mislead the reader about the true nature of the issues driving an industry.... Read More...

CA Technologies 2014 Predictions - A Redoubling of IT and Focus on the Customer Experience

2013 was yet another banner year for IT, proving that it is at the center of just about everything we do in our personal and business lives.... Read More...

Condusiv Technologies 2014 Predictions: The Virtual Soothsayer

Every year around this time, since the beginning of time, predictions for the year to come have been something that people come to expect. So lets have at it.... Read More...

PLUMgrid 2014 Predictions: The Cloud Lifts on Network Virtualization

In the past year networking continued to be one of the key components in the design of scalable private clouds / automated data centers. With various software defined networking solutions aimed to satisfy the requirements for those environments, 2014 is the year when the path for enterprise adoption... Read More...

Adaptiva 2014 Predictions: BYOD Falls Short, WAN Bandwidth is Tested, & XP Security Issues Abound

Worldwide, enterprises are advancing in various facets of technology - from BYOD to SDN and Cloud, new technologies and changes to improve efficiency levels are implemented every year. Of course, some of these are overhyped. While others are a more accurate depiction of the enterprise IT space and s... Read More...

CloudPhysics 2014 Predictions - Analytics will be the Only Real Differentiator Left in Storage

The game of speeds and feeds is over. It's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between storage vendors, incumbents and startups through the usual lens of capacity or latency or IOPs. There are no disruptive benefits left doing things the old way.... Read More...

VCE 2014 Predictions - The unified, autonomic, flash-based, big data future of converged infrastructure

Converged infrastructure will continue to be at the heart of every data center conversation in 2014. A trend of accelerated innovation in data center-centric technologies will continue, enabling more capabilities in cloud operating models for customers around the world. And although there will be fu... Read More...

BTI Systems 2014 Predictions - Virtualization to Transform Network Infrastructures in 2014/2015

The growth of data centers globally continues to be fueled by the explosion in cloud traffic, which is anticipated to increase fourfold between 2012 and 2017, reaching 7.7 zettabytes by 2017 (Cisco Global Cloud Index). And in 2017 nearly two-thirds of all workloads will be processed in the cloud and... Read More...

NTT DATA 2014 Predictions: The Growth of PaaS and Cloud Integration

2013 was the year of the cloud. Organizations achieved great success by being able to cut IT costs and improve efficiency. 2014 looks to be even bigger in cloud as the market continues to grow. As always, there are areas of growth and some challenges to be aware of in the New Year.... Read More...

Spiceworks 2014 Predictions in the World of SMB Tech

At Spiceworks, we have a thriving community of 4 million IT pros that provide one-of-a-kind visibility into the current and future tech challenges and opportunities for SMBs. As such, my predictions here are based not just on my own perspective but also on the stories and observations of the Spicew... Read More...

SDN, Cloud Design and Bare Metal Switching: 3 Predictions for Data Center Networks in 2014

While still in its formative stages, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has become synonymous with under-the-hood technology transformations across the networking industry. In 2014, these transformations will become increasingly visible as initial use cases become clear, fundamental design choices em... Read More...

Teradici Predictions: 2014 - The Year of DaaS, and VDI acceleration

The shift towards the cloud and mobile - and the inevitable trend of BYOD - is putting pressure on IT managers, on top of tighter budgets and fluctuating headcounts. In 2014, more organizations will begin to explore alternatives to traditional enterprise computing models, particularly as Desktop-as-... Read More...

Internap 2014 Predictions: Rethinking the Hypervisor

As developers architect a new generation of scale-out applications designed to run and directly interact with the cloud, we're starting to see more industry discussion around hardware speeds and feeds, and another "old-is-new" resurgence around containerization - which raises questions about the fut... Read More...

Interxion 2014 Predictions: The Expanding Reach of Cloud Computing in 2014

Most of the IT industry is in agreement that cloud computing will continue to grow throughout 2014 (scratch the surface and the figures will blow your mind!). As such, the enterprise IT department is becoming an important hub in most organizations, taking the lead on strategic decisions rather than ... Read More...

Asigra 2014 Predictions: Businesses to Increase Use of Cloud-Based Applications in 2014

One of the major trends forecast for 2014 will be the movement toward cloud-based applications such as Google Apps, Microsoft 365 and others. According to Google, more than 5 million businesses now use Google Apps and this figure has been predicted by analysts to grow dramatically over the next seve... Read More...

Published Tuesday, January 14, 2014 6:55 AM by David Marshall