GEC NEWS WIREVeeam sees acceleration of cloud adoption and growing customer expectations across the IT industry as the biggest catalysts for significant change through 2016
Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle East and SAARC at Veeam Software looks ahead to the top technology trends that will affect businesses in 2016:
The Criticality of Availability: In 2016, the Internet of Things brings availability to the fore. The rise of mobile and connected devices demonstrates that there is zero tolerance for downtime.
Legacy Thinking, Applications and Systems Must Not Stifle Innovation:Over the next year, companies will draw the line and migrate to the next generation of application technologies to keep up with competitors.
Big Data Will Appear to Shrink: It’s expected that 2016 will see increased adoption of virtual reality (Oculus, Microsoft Hololens), motion-based interfaces, speech recognition and 3D printing as a means to manufacture. For business, the IT interface is changing too: in the face of explosive data growth, traditional data management techniques no longer apply. The operator interface will focus increasingly on automation and data lifecycle management to ensure the right data is in the hands of the right person at the right time.
The Emergence of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service: Veeam predicts Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) to be a game changer in 2016, as it will enable businesses to meet and exceed customer and employee expectations around availability. As businesses place IT and availability at the center of their operations, we can expect to see service level agreements with guaranteed backup and recovery times becoming the standard for the modern enterprise.
