IT Predictions for 2011
December 30, 2010
Last year, Nathan Burke, who runs Aprigo (and creator of the NINJA data visualization tool), asked me to come up with a couple of predictions for 2010. Here's what I said:
Large shops are going to take advantage of ever-increasingly-virtualized hardware-cum-software and increase the complexity of their internal clouds. Small shops are going to continue to wonder why the cloud is a big deal, and they’ll keep dabbling in small-scale virtualization. Startups are going to wonder why anyone ever thought paying for hardware was a good idea.
Before the end of the year, we’re going to start expanded IaaS where a provider not only offers virtualized service infrastructures, but also thin-client based virtualized desktops delivered via VPN, essentially making the clients’ networks themselves virtual within the provider’s cloud.
Oh, and flying cars.
My first prediction was obviously a safe bet. The results? Yes, virtualization has continued to grow unabated, and pretty much along the path that I (and everyone else) anticipated.
With the second one, I sort of went out on a limb. All of the pieces are there to put together services like the one I described, and an entire solution may exist, I just don't know of it.
And flying cars? Well, technically, but neither I (nor probably you) know someone with one.
This year, Nathan asked me me to chime in on what I thought the next year would hold. I haven't had a ton of time, but I managed to get a couple more predictions together.
You can check out the blog entry, or just watch the slideshow below:
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December 31st, 2010 at 12:34 am
Hey Matt.
Thanks again for the predictions! I wanted to also let you know that eWeek picked up on the predictions and ran them here:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/11-Expert-Predictions-for-Cloud-IT-in-2011-564092/
Thanks again!
December 31st, 2010 at 11:26 am
We already have flying cars, but we spell them like this: h-e-l-i-c-o-p-t-e-r-s.