The year 2013 will be remembered for many new innovations and advancements in technology. Expecting the same for year 2014, Edgar Dias, Regional Director for Brocade India(NASDAQ:BRCD), has outlined the top technology trends we should watch out for in 2014.
Globally, and specifically in Asia-Pacific and Japan, exploration of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and software-defined technologies (network, virtualization, data center, storage and infrastructure) will evolve from being simply "research", and enterprises – particularly in the service provider space - will begin to roll out production deployments.
Technology disruptions are forcing us to fundamentally rethink how networks should be architected, designed, deployed and operated in data centers. Networks are more critical than ever to deliver applications, and we believe fabrics will play a pivotal role to accelerate this transformation - with drastic improvements in network efficiency, resource utilization and performance. The explosion of data is forcing an end to the traditional three-tier network and with Gartner predicting that by 2014, 80 per cent of network traffic will flow from server to server, we expect to see enterprises continuing to flatten their networks. They will benefit from more powerful and resilient networks, while ensuring that the networks can massively grow network capacity on demand without disruptions. Even at the age of 40, Ethernet will continue to revolutionize networking.
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Edgar further added that BYOD and the explosion of data (especially video content) are causing many new challenges as the amount of data becomes too big to handle in terms of getting value from it and in defining a strategy. Enterprises will go back to basics in 2014 and ask fundamental questions of their data center infrastructures as they look to deal with unprecedented data volumes: What are the objectives? Are we collecting the correct data? How can we use this to enable change in our business? Companies which cannot answer these questions adequately will struggle in the next 12 months. Furthermore, we expect to see one or two significant cases of network shutdowns caused by data overload.
