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What's at the top of CIOs' agenda in 2010?
By Victor Ng | Jan 15, 2010
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There are signs of cautious recovery in many economies, providing the nudge that companies needed to shift from their hunker-down mentality to a more positive one focused on renewed investment in technology. Many will still keep an eye on cost efficiencies as IT budgets remain flat.
As a result, NetApp believes that IT innovations that align companies with the latest in business best practices - such as green computing; unified management and anytime, anywhere access – are expected to top the CIO’s agenda this year.
Virtualization will dominate data centers
2010 will be the year when infrastructure virtualization will become a pervasive trend, as companies continue to seek ways to do more without piling on costs. In spite of the disappointing results, the high-profile Copenhagen talks have propelled the momentum towards green IT adoption, further providing an impetus for IT departments to curb server footprint as well as power and cooling requirements - all of which can be achieved through virtualization.
SaaS and Cloud Computing will see greater adoption
In many IT boardrooms, technologies such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing will be revisited more often this year, as virtualization paves the way for building private clouds. Cloud computing itself will be more compelling to many, as a means to deliver applications and services across the network regardless of the hardware or operating platform. Nascent cloud architectures will begin to mature and provide the benefits to customers and service providers; while service oriented architectures will evolve, providing a true operating expenses model with flexibility.
Continued focus on data center transformation
In 2010, NetApp intends to continue innovating to recreate the data center of the future. To achieve its goal of becoming the virtualized infrastructure platform of choice, it is intensifying its efforts on four important domains of innovation – storage efficiency, unified architecture, scale-out and secure multi-tenancy.
In addition to efficiency features that are already built into NetApp’s solutions such as deduplication, disk-based back-up, FlexVol and FlexClone, it will continue to advance enabling technologies such as FCoE to further complement advances in server and storage virtualization.
NetApp also wants to help customers relook at the way they manage and scale their storage, in a way that can keep up with evolving business demands, without completely overhauling the data center. Working together with strategic partners such as Cisco and VMware, NetApp will press forward with its unified dynamic data center offering.
For companies that are ready to move into the cloud, IT-as-a-Service promises to deliver a secure, flexible, always-on infrastructure to accelerate business into the new decade.
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