With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud architectures, organizations are modernizing their data-intensive applications and workloads like AI and blockchain. Shifting infrastructure from on-premises to public cloud and between storage mediums increases potential but also complexity. In 2020, vendors must prioritize simplicity by offering flexible technologies like software-defined infrastructure and consumption options to help organizations keep up with growing data and transformation.

1. With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de-facto
architecture for the enterprise, organizations everywhere are modernizing
to deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and
workloads such as AI-driven IoT and Hyperledgers.
Shifting from on-premises to public cloud services, private clouds, and moving from
disk to flash – sometimes concurrently – opens the door to enormous potential, but
also the unintended consequence of IT complexity.
In 2020, the industry must prioritize simplicity. Vendors must match evolving
business models with modern, flexible technologies, such as commodity hardware
and software-based Infrastructure Virtualization, and provide choice in
consumption options.
The next decade will see
data-driven transformation
like never before. To keep
up, keep it simple.
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5G
• Lower-cost sensors, maturing
AI apps = compute-intensive edge environments
• High bandwidth, low latency environments enable
intelligent, instantaneous decision-making
• Edge devices become bigger, more diverse
(e.g.: connected solar farms)
• More data centers at the edge and software such as
AIOps will be necessary to monitory complex systems
• Hyperledgers will transform wider industries
on a grander scale than cryptocurrency/bitcoin
has transformed finance
• Companies will invest in differentiated apps to
collaborate on critical data sets, like a healthcare
transformation with universal patient records
• Use cases validating hyperledgers will drive
additional widespread adoption of the technology
across society
PREDICTION 1 5G makes AI-driven IoT a reality
• Commodity hardware performance, software-based
virtualization and micro-service software architectures
continue to improve rapidly
• Hardware-based composable architectures will be
relegated to niche datacenter roles
• Organizations will invest in combos of modern HCI
(including disaggregated HCI) and software-based
virtualization and containerization
PREDICTION 3 Infrastructure virtualization wins
vs. hardware-based composable
architecture
PREDICTION 2Enterprise-distributed indelible
hyperledgers push blockchain
beyond buzz
2020
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PREDICTIONS