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December 12, 2014

Tech Market in 2015 Ruled by Six C Principles

It may be hard to believe, but there are already signs the tech market in 2015 will come to be dominated by a handful of core principles, all beginning with the letter C. That's a strange confluence of circumstances, but if a new report from 451 Research (News - Alert) is right, we're about to all be C students in the very near future as just six C's rule the tech marketplace. Specifically, the six C's in question are containers, convergence, cloud security, closets, crowd workers, and coexistence—six C's that mean more to the market than some may anticipate.

So what do these six C principles have to do with the wider market? Surprisingly, the answers are simple: containers, particularly as represented by Docker, are proving to pose significant disruption in the market as the rise of virtualization carries on. Containers should help prove a secure means to hold certain forms of data, making these valuable as virtualization carries on.

Meanwhile, convergence—the process by which computing, storage and networking come together in one central mass—is proving to be an attractive proposition for enterprise users looking for better efficiency in the field. Vendors, meanwhile, like convergence thanks to its ability to allow for a competitive edge over other similar vendors in the field, as the individual parts of convergence were starting to be viewed as commodities. Carrying out fuller convergence, meanwhile, gives vendors an edge.

Cloud security, meanwhile, is all but self-explanatory. As more systems are cloud-based, the need to protect the contents of said systems will only increase along with that. So protecting the cloud will be, ultimately, just as important as developing the cloud, and make it a smart idea overall. Closets, meanwhile refer to small datacenters called by the same name, or sometimes referred to as “server closets.” Smaller and more affordable, closets are becoming more powerful besides, allowing same to serve many of the same functions as the larger variety.

Crowd workers, meanwhile, reflect some of the biggest changes in the working world we're seeing of late. With the mobile workforce rising, and telecommuting allowing most anyone to work from most anywhere, about the only thing getting in the way are issues of corporate culture, those who believe that the best work is done by people in the same building face to face. Firms who don't believe this the case, meanwhile, are something on the rise, and as such, crowd workers are stepping up, with it becoming less a matter of firm identity and more a matter of skill sets brought to the table.

Finally, coexistence is perhaps one of the biggest, as different departments turn to data to accomplish everyday tasks, and IT is left serving as a facilitator to all the departments involved. Marketing demands big data for setting price structures and laying out stores, research departments want data to drive product development, and so on. All these departments thus coexist, with an equal demand for data.

While most predictions have a chance to be proven erroneous in the end, these predictions have plenty of sound research to support same. We may not see these rise in 2015, necessarily—each year tends to look a lot like its predecessor; ask where your flying car is for proof—but there are changes to every new year, and seeing just what changes and what doesn't is half the attraction of predicting in the first place.




Edited by Maurice Nagle
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