IT Transformation - How REAL it is? How does it impact you?

Every year we reach out to thousands of IT/Storage Managers and professionals worldwide to understand the overall trends and key challenges in the industry. This study helps us plan and align education solutions to the needs of the industry and professionals like you. The findings are also highly valuable to IT decision makers as well as individual professionals to validate, refine, and possibly align their plans and goals to the industry directions.

Though we have been carrying out this study annually for the last six years, we have started to notice a mega trend towards virtualized data centers (not a surprise) and cloud computing since last year. Current and projected data shows that the IT Transformation (towards cloud infrastructure) is not only REAL but is also making way rapidly across all sizes of companies in all parts of the world.

We will be publishing the details during EMC World next week and will make the white paper available for download.

Meanwhile, let's see how close you are in terms of your understanding of this 'mega trend':

1. When do you think there will be more storage deployed in virtual server environment than in classic/traditional environment?
2. When do you think there will be more storage deployed in private cloud environment than in classic/traditional environment?
3. Which IT groups will be impacted and require to develop new skills (lets just focus on Systems, Storage, and Networking groups)?

You will get some idea (hints) in the study we published last year for 2011-12 trends (Managing Information Storage - Trends, Challenges, and Options 2011-12)

Best,

Alok