I’m
not a great one for New Year resolutions and predictions. I know people who are however – and I clearly
work with them! Our first free webinar
of the New Year is Top 5 Capacity and
Performance Concerns for 2014. It’s
on Wednesday January 15, and is the first in our new format of monthly
webinars.
If
I were to make a more general prediction, it would be that everything will
become more and more mainstream, part of our everyday working life. The IT industry likes to become excited over
each new technological change. History
tends to suggest that while each change does make a radical difference to our
world, certain aspects of the change are never as revolutionary as previously
expected.
I
think good examples of this are Cloud and Big Data. Both will become increasingly major factors
in our working lives – but not to the exclusion of all else. Rather I see them as blending in to how we
currently manage infrastructure, sitting alongside traditional activities, used
where they are best suited. Too often we
talk of new technologies sweeping away the old.
3D printing is a good example.
Early talk was of it sweeping away traditional manufacturing in many
areas, completely replacing certain activities.
Experience is already showing this not to be the case. While it is certainly revolutionary as an
approach, it is being adopted alongside traditional, established manufacturing
practices, improving productivity in areas where traditional techniques are not
able.
Cloud
and Big Data will be the same. Cloud
based applications will replace many traditional applications, but their
management will slip seamlessly into existing infrastructure management. To prevent waste of resources, a central view
is needed no matter how those resources are provisioned. Similarly with Big Data, it will lend itself
to certain areas of analysis.In some it will revolutionize life by enabling us
to see patterns in data that we previously could not, but where proven
techniques meet our needs, it will not need to be deployed. My excitement from a capacity management
perspective is in seeing what those new insights into the data we handle will
be.
Finally,
I will offer one firm prediction, but perhaps for further ahead than 2014. In the not too distant future, all the
concerns we keep hearing about security of data in the Cloud will disappear. As an important problem to overcome and with human
ingenuity so good, I believe that ways will emerge of making us comfortable
with having our important data stored out there.
Enough
– back to the day to day job of managing the here and now for me. I hope Metron gets the chance to work with
you in 2014 and make our own contribution to your success.
Andrew Smith
CEO
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