2011 data center trend predictions
Posted on Thu, Oct 28, 2010
By Melissa
One of our favorite parts of working in high tech pr is communicating with our clients' customers and partners to glean trends, raw data and information that we can share beyond the marketing veil.
It's that time of year when we are focusing heavily on discussing and presenting 2011 data center trends. Here's a preview of what we expect in the coming year:
- Aprius expects growing support for convergence over Ethernet, whether through technology enablers like DCB (CEE) enhancements or practical implementations of FCoE, PCIeOE and RoCEE. The company sees growing interest and support for 10GbE and 40GbE as universal fabrics in 2011, with implications for data center architectures and subsequent technologies within storage, networking and servers.
- Correlsense predicts a big increase in the use of transaction management solutions within the enterprise. The company is discussing the link between business and technology and the need for greater IT reliability.
- Embotics notes that mobility between internal and external clouds is too big of a leap for most these days, as it is fraught with complexity that only highly controlled and automated environments can even contemplate. Yes, the external cloud will continue to garner lots of hype, but Embotics foresees that time and money in 2011 will be spent on the nuts and bolts of internal cloud management.
- FalconStor Software wants IT managers to understand why and how data protection is broken and the need for service-level data protection moving into 2011. The company’s interim CEO, Jim McNiel, is discussing the growing need for storage and desktop virtualization and how these trends are breaking the current data protection paradigm.
- VM6 Software says SMBs will continue to face increased challenges when it comes to virtualization and will need to overcome these challenges with simplicity to cut costs.
What data center trend do you think will prevail most in 2011?