Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2018. Read them in this 10th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Dilip Advani, VP of Marketing, Uila
Application-centric Shift for Infrastructure Teams
Based on insights that
we have received from our customers, partners, industry analysts we have worked
with, and our internal SME team, here are Uila's predictions for 2018:
Accelerated shift
towards an Application-centric world
The IT landscape is
shifting from an infrastructure-centric view to an Application-centric view with
the mandatory expectation of Application Performance, Service Delivery and
Business Impact being the endpoint for every person in IT, irrespective of
whether they are in traditional IT Operation teams or DevOps.
Infrastructure Professionals
will be pressured to be Application Savvy
The train is leaving the station and either you are on the
train or you will get left behind or run over, as there is no stopping the
"Application-centric" train in the virtualization world. IT budgets will
continue to stay flat, and organizations will have to get more done with the IT
staff on-hand, which calls for a "Specialist" to a more "Generalist" shift in
terms of skillsets. Also at the end of the day, with the new
"application-centric" shift, the IT Operations team which traditionally has
stayed within their own responsibility silo only, now need to have the insight
and adapt themselves professionally to get more Application savvy.
In-house VDI
deployments are at a critical crossroad
VDI will continue to dominate in the Educational and Healthcare
verticals with large deployments. But as many of these large deployments
continue to experience end user performance issues, VDI troubleshooting will
need tools that provide the necessary insight to quickly troubleshoot before
they bring the user-productivity to a standstill. If IT organizations do not quickly find a way
to resolve the issues on hand, they might as well move away from VDI or will be
forced to move to a VDI as a service type of a scenario.
Big year for Micro segmentation
2018 will be a big year for Micro-segmentation as a means of
future-proofing Network Security. Minimizing the impact of an attack is the new
means of Data Protection, as you just cannot stop all threats and attacks. But
limiting the attack to a micro segment, maybe the best protection that is
really possible. In 2018, we will see
more and more organizations taking the plunge here and implementing it in their
environment during data center or workload migration projects.
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About the Author
Dilip Advani has over 12 years of Marketing leadership experience
driving Product Management and Product Marketing teams. He developed
the AirMagnet business line into the market and mind-share leader in the
wireless solutions space in the matter of a couple of years, while at
Fluke Networks. After Fluke Networks, as Director for Strategy and
Business Development at Netscout, he was primarily responsible for
shaping and aligning the integration of the wireless portfolio into
Netscout's core businesses and driving business partnerships. Prior to
AirMagnet, Dilip worked as a freelance reviewer for Network Computing
Magazine and also led the Telecom and Networking team for a Citibank,
India location. Dilip holds a Master's Degree in Telecom and Network
Management from Syracuse University and a Bachelor's degree in
Electronics Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India. You can
follow him on @advani_dilip