IT world looks to cloud and big data for growth in 2015

Grazed from FinancialPost.  Author: Lynn Greiner.

Every year around this time, we get inundated with predictions of what to look for in IT when the calendar turns. Sometimes those forecasts come true, sometimes they’re merely wishful thinking, but it’s usually interesting to see what the pundits believe is in store.

Let’s take a peek into their crystal balls.

International Data Corporation analysts made a series of predictions, some rather startling, about the cloud. For example, they said that three quarters of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings would be redesigned, rebranded, or discontinued in the next 12-to-24 months, despite the expectation of rapid growth as competitors rise up to challenge market leader Amazon…


And by 2016, more than half of organizations building hybrid clouds will acquire workload-aware cloud management products; 65% of the criteria used to choose which workloads will be cloud-ified will be tied to data privacy regulations…

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