Today is the last day of 2012. As we look forward to 2013 tomorrow, Charles Clarke – Technical Director of APAC for Veeam – looks back on four IT trends in 2012, and shares his predictions for 2013.
Charles Clarke is the Technical Director, APAC, Veeam
First let’s take a look back at the year gone by.
- Downtime tolerance has diminished
- IT spend is held in the hands of a powerful few
- Cloud has been a big hit with SMEs
- Businesses have become even more data dependent
Next it’s time to gaze at the crystal ball for the next year starting tomorrow.
- Cloud will continue to grow
- IT spend will go “pay-as-you-go”
- IT skills will move to a “cloud model”
- Virtualisation will become more entwined with the business
The juicy details are elaborated below.
