By Mike Marr
Expert Author
Article Date: 2010-12-02
Russ Fellows recently posted an article on infostor.com outlining what he believes the "big 3" issues facing information technology are and how these issues will be addressed throughout the next decade. Fellows identifies these three issues as transformation of data centers, data analytics, and integrated data management.
As businesses continue to immerse their operations further into the web and social media, their supporting hardware is growing at an equally rapid pace. The traditional manner of buying new hardware and expanding your server farms is price inhibiting to business growth. Thus, Russ believes that cloud computing will continue to have a major impact over the next decade via data center transformation. More companies will begin to rely on cloud computing, not only as a supplement to their current data center needs, but also as their sole source of data center needs. This move toward cloud computing is what Fellows labels as "data center transformation."As web and social media integration continue to expand, an influx of information and data will be available to capture. The demographic and social information available via Facebook's Open Graph is what a marketer's dreams are made of. Combining these sources of information with web usage statistics, including heat maps, will give businesses a new wave of powerful data from which to build products, services, and advertising. The key to handling this data is the further improvement of data analytics.
Lastly, Mr. Fellows points to integrated data management (IDM) as another vital piece of information technology for the next decade. Russ breaks IDM into three main categories: data protection (backup), tiering (flow/replication of data between systems), and archiving.
Fellows goes into more detail on what technologies currently exist that will help with these issues over the next decade, and what technologies could be created and/or refined to take advantage of these needs. Check back regularly over the next decade to see how these aspects of information technology pan out.
