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Monday, April 7, 2008
Accenture IT, Tech Roadmap Points to Storage Gaining Importance
Accenture exec says eight trends will change the data center – storage and all. Every five years, Kishore Swaminathan, chief scientist at global services outfit Accenture, confers with colleagues on the key factors driving IT for the next three to five years. These are the trends the firm will use to guide product and service investments, marketing, training, and other activities.
This year's findings have a number of implications for storage managers -- and the higher up you are, the more you'll be affected.
"Broadly, the conclusions are that the role of the CIO is about to change fairly dramatically," says Swaminathan.
Indeed, Accenture predicts a shakeup in IT that could profoundly change the nature of jobs in and around the data center. To understand what's predicted requires a look at the eight top trends Accenture has defined. Following, in no particular order, are the factors Swaminathan says will shape IT for the next five years, along with the impact they'll have on the CIO's job and the implications for storage networking:
Trend No. 1: Cloud computing
Trend No. 2: Shadow IT. The capabilities of open-source software, along with widgets and mashup solutions, are allowing corporate employees to set up applications without IT at an unprecedented rate.
Trend No. 3: Enterprise Intelligence
Trend No. 4: Continuous user connectivity
Trend No. 5: Social computing
Trend No. 6: User-generated content
Trend No. 7: Software development revised
Trend No. 8: Green computing
A lot of these trends point to futures that may not happen for many companies. But in larger enterprises, Swaminathan thinks they will have an impact on CIOs in a number of ways
Where is storage in all this? "Hardware is going more and more toward scale, to the point where it won't be economical for anyone to run a small data center," Swaminathan says. Ecosystem cloud suppliers will buy storage in bulk and squeeze storage manufacturers for better deals.
It makes sense for big storage suppliers to start their own ecosystem clouds, compete with applications like document management.
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This year's findings have a number of implications for storage managers -- and the higher up you are, the more you'll be affected.
"Broadly, the conclusions are that the role of the CIO is about to change fairly dramatically," says Swaminathan.
Indeed, Accenture predicts a shakeup in IT that could profoundly change the nature of jobs in and around the data center. To understand what's predicted requires a look at the eight top trends Accenture has defined. Following, in no particular order, are the factors Swaminathan says will shape IT for the next five years, along with the impact they'll have on the CIO's job and the implications for storage networking:
Trend No. 1: Cloud computing
Trend No. 2: Shadow IT. The capabilities of open-source software, along with widgets and mashup solutions, are allowing corporate employees to set up applications without IT at an unprecedented rate.
Trend No. 3: Enterprise Intelligence
Trend No. 4: Continuous user connectivity
Trend No. 5: Social computing
Trend No. 6: User-generated content
Trend No. 7: Software development revised
Trend No. 8: Green computing
A lot of these trends point to futures that may not happen for many companies. But in larger enterprises, Swaminathan thinks they will have an impact on CIOs in a number of ways
Where is storage in all this? "Hardware is going more and more toward scale, to the point where it won't be economical for anyone to run a small data center," Swaminathan says. Ecosystem cloud suppliers will buy storage in bulk and squeeze storage manufacturers for better deals.
It makes sense for big storage suppliers to start their own ecosystem clouds, compete with applications like document management.
More from here
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