Publication: VM Blog, 7 Dec 2011
Welcome to IT prediction season! Again, I am inspired to throw my exceedingly fallible hat into the ring with my predictions, specifically for virtualization and cloud. I seem to have had a decent run of predictions last year, but I claim more luck than credit. I still think predictions are a mug's game, and continue to eschew both the importance and reliability of predictions.
That said, here are my predictions for 2012:
1. Brands May Come and Go - But No Technology Will Die
Not only are we not living in a ‘post-PC' world, we are not even living in a ‘post-mainframe' world! Cloud will not kill data centers, virtual will not kill physical, tablets will not kill PCs, Mac will not kill Windows, Android will not kill iOS, streaming will not kill DVDs. The technology pie is growing, our choices are expanding, and almost every slice is getting bigger. So be prepared to manage an ever-increasing selection of technologies across public and private boundaries.
