Virtualization and Cloud executives share their predictions for 2016. Read them in this 8th Annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Chris Schin, Vice President of Product Management at CloudPhysics
The Year of Infrastructure Analytics
IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) will emerge as the predominant Operations
Management paradigm
Big data has effectively
been applied to scores of industries, and the adoption of big data-based IT
management tools in the enterprise will take off in 2016.
Data centers generate an
enormous quantity of data, such as configuration data, runtime resource
consumption data, and performance data.
With better data, people
make better decisions. To make fully-informed decisions, IT shops must capture
and analyze infrastructure operations data in order to do proper root cause
analysis and be proactive in their management the environment in order to
ensure ideal performance and availability of the applications that support the
business.
Due to a large install base
of traditional IT tools, it will take time for ITOA tools to reach market
dominance, but these tools will begin to be sold more frequently than
traditional IT operations tools in 2016.
Enterprise migration to IaaS will accelerate
We will see an acceleration
in enterprise adoption of IaaS for enterprise production workloads, driven by
three factors:
- The
ever-increasing availability of inexpensive WAN bandwidth is effectively
shrinking the world, snuffing out concerns around the latency of IaaS access.
- IaaS solutions
are maturing, and viable solutions are now available from more traditional
enterprise IT vendors (e.g. Microsoft, Google, VMware), lowering the perceived
risk of adoption.
- Competition among IaaS vendors continues to
drive market prices down to a level where cloud migration represents a cost
savings for even very large enterprises.
Large, homogenous cloud infrastructure providers will begin to realize
the vision of Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
The SDDC, which involves
comprehensive resource virtualization in the data center, is a concept that,
taken at face value, makes too much sense to NOT evolve into the pre-eminent
data center paradigm. However, the reality is that the enterprise data center
of 2015 is still far too heterogeneous to allow for the complete adoption of
uniform virtualization.
Enter
cloud providers; IaaS providers will be the leaders in the realization of SDDC,
since they are designed with a necessary commitment to homogeneity, making
extreme resource virtualization much more of a possibility.
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About the Author
Chris
Schin, Vice President of Product Management at CloudPhysics, provider of data-driven insights
for smarter IT http://www.cloudphysics.com
Chris is an
accomplished product leader with consistent track record (15+ years) of
bringing new products and services to market, focused predominantly on the
design of cloud/SaaS products and services, with a specific expertise in
designing solutions for mid-sized-sized IT organizations and the managed
service providers that serve them. Prior to CloudPhysics, Chris was vice
president of product management at Zetta.net, an
enterprise cloud backup, DR, and archiving vendor, responsible for coordinating
all product-related initiatives, including all product strategy, direction, and
prioritization. Previously, Chris was Senior Director, Product Management &
Business Operations for Symantec Protection Network, Symantec's Software as a
Service platform. Earlier in his career, Chris held management positions in
several venture-backed technology companies and worked on Wall Street as a
financial analyst. Chris earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at
University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Philosophy from Dartmouth
College.