Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2019. Read them in this 11th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Seth Noble, PhD, Founder and CEO, Data Expedition, Inc.
Accelerated Data Transport
My predictions for 2018 were about improving stability and
value for data transport to the cloud, data storage, and application deployment.
Looking to the New Year, I predict the following:
1)
The gigabit barrier: Gigabit WAN connectivity is becoming common, even
to the home, and demand for multigigabit is growing with the appetite for cloud
services. But transitioning systems and
devices above 1 gigabit per second requires a lot more than just a faster network
card. Consumer and most commercial
hardware have severe bottlenecks that make achieving reliable super gigabit
data rates difficult. No common
operating systems ship with multi-gigabit ready configurations and TCP is simply
incapable of scaling to such speeds on public networks. In 2019, we are going to see demand for multi-gigabit
performance run into these infrastructure barriers, placing pressure on system
and service providers to address them.
2)
Non-public data distribution workflows will come
home. Egress fees make routing data
through a public cloud provider expensive and the increased bandwidth of
hosting data in the cloud can make those expenses difficult to predict and
control. Mass public distribution will
still benefit from content delivery network functionality, whether that is in
the cloud or traditional CDNs. But, in
2019, intra-enterprise workflows that focus on distribution rather than
processing will make their way back to on-premise data centers and egress
friendly providers.
Data Expedition, Inc. is the creator of the
industry's only intelligent data transport software. It automatically adapts to
network variability to fully utilize any network path, maximizing the
performance of existing infrastructure, while minimizing time and effort
required - all at a fraction of the cost of other solutions. The company's
patented Multipurpose Transaction Protocol® (MTPTM) technology uses unique
flow-control and error-recovery algorithms to achieve high network efficiency
across all IP networks. DEI has provided data transport solutions to the
world's largest companies across nearly every continent and industry since
2000.
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About
the Author
Seth Noble, PhD, is the creator of the
patented Multipurpose Transaction Protocol (MTP) technology and a top data
transport expert. He is Founder and CEO of Data
Expedition, Inc., with a dual BS-MS degree from Caltech,
and a doctorate in computer science from the University of Oklahoma for work
developing MTP.