
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019. Read them in this 11th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Michael Segal, VP of Strategy at NETSCOUT
2019: The Year that Digital Transformation Finally Comes Together
Today's
organizations rely on technology and strategies such as the flexibility and
versatility of the hybrid cloud, the speed of automation, and the innovation of
using machine learning. To stay relevant during the digital transformation,
organizations will continue to embrace these technologies and approaches for
the benefits they bring, but will also have to handle the new challenges
associated with these innovations.
In 2019, the
adoption and growth of hybrid and multi-cloud environments will continue, with
workloads and services increasingly moving back and forth between on-premise
and in the cloud. In order to properly leverage the benefits of this approach,
2019 is the year that hybrid and multi-cloud environments will demand holistic
and continuous monitoring and management.
Technologies
and strategies such as SD-WAN and the CI/CD process bring increased operational
efficiencies to businesses in the form of enhanced speed and agility to execute
infrastructure plans. In 2019, monitoring the health and security of these
automated services will be a necessity, and smart data will be critical in
making this happen.
Machine learning
has played a big role in the digital transformation. In 2019, there will be in
an increase in the importance and influence of smart data being used as a
training set for machine learning. Today's organizations have the ability to
collect data from multiple environments. If they organize this data to be smart
and relevant, it can be leveraged for machine training purposes and provide
insight when it comes to security, service performance, and user experience.
The more effective the data, the more effective the machine learning algorithms
will become.
Finally, in
2019, the ability to process data at the source will become critical. By
deploying lightweight agents at the edge, organizations will be able to extend
their management capabilities to the edge and make this process a reality.
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About the Author
Michael Segal serves as Vice
President of Strategy at NETSCOUT, where he is responsible for market
research, enterprise solutions marketing, analyst relations, customer advocacy,
analyst relations, advertising, and social marketing.
Michael's product
management experience spans across ten years at Cisco Systems, where he managed
all aspects of product line life cycles for several successful product lines.
Michael's technical areas of expertise include SaaS/cloud, virtualization,
mobile IP, security, IP networking, Wi-Fi/wireless, VoIP, and remote access.
Michael holds patents in areas of networking and wireless mobility.