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Gartner has come out with top 10 strategic technology trends for most Indian organizations in infrastructure and operations in 2014.
"We have identified the key technology trends that Indian companies should monitor closely over the next five years," said Milind Govekar, managing vice president at Gartner. "Internal trends, market trends and societal trends are rapidly converging, and many will have dramatic effects on infrastructure and operations planning."
Gartner presented the following top 10 technology trends in the ongoing Gartner Symposium/ITxpo - the gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. According to Gartner this event delivers independent and objective content with the authority and weight and provides access to the latest solutions from key technology providers.
Software-defined Networks
Software-defined networks (SDN) provide a means to abstract the network just as server virtualization abstracts the server. Unlike traditional networks where distributed forwarding and routing protocols manage topology based upon port and route metrics, the SDN controller (pair) is optimized for control of a data center (single, or hybrid cloud) and is the authoritative source for topology and policy enforcement. This is important in that it allows simplification of how the network is designed and operated such that one is not boxed by configuring it to individual vendor platforms and even different distributed network protocols.
Software-defined Storage
Data growth continues unabated. From an IT perspective, one of the main issues is not awareness of the issue, but prioritization of the issues. Software-defined storage (SDS) is the logical next step of the software defined data center. By employing SDS, organizations are able to separate and abstract storage elements, as well as combine storage elements and capabilities providing storage solutions/services. They also have the potential to enable heterogeneous storage resources to create virtual pools of resources based on application requirements rather than the physical storage characteristics.
Hybrid Cloud Services
Unlike private, public...