NetApp 2020 Predictions

NetApp 2020 Predictions

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  With the widespreadadoption of hybrid multicloud as the de facto IT 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 indelible ledgers. Shifting from on-premises to public cloud services, from traditional IT to private cloud, and 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. ©2020 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. NETAPP, the NETAPP logo, and the marks listed at http://www.netapp.com/TM are trademarks of NetApp, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. NA-394-0120 5G • Lower-cost sensors, maturing AI apps = compute-intensive edge environments • High-bandwidth, low-latency capabilities enable intelligent, instantaneous decision-making • Edge devices become bigger, more diverse (suck as, connected solar farms) • More data centers at the edge and platforms such as AIOps will be necessary to monitor complex systems • Indelible ledgers will transform wider industries on a grander scale than cryptocurrency has transformed finance • Companies will invest in differentiated apps to collaborate on critical datasets, like the healthcare transformation with universal patient records • Use cases validating indelible ledgers additional widespread adoption of the technology will drive transformation across society PREDICTION 1 5G makes AI-driven IoT a reality • Commodity hardware performance, software-based virtualization and microservice software architectures continue to improve rapidly • Hardware-based composable architectures will be relegated to niche data center 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 ledgers push blockchain beyond buzz 2020 NETAPP PREDICTIONS