Understand, Adapt, And Invent Along The Way

With the new financial year looming on us, it’s time for the balance sheets to re-surface. The challenge of doing more with less and creating a lean structure across ICT has to be addressed now.

Understanding the dynamic market, adapting to its needs, inventing along the way and having an eye for detail is where there is opportunity for expansion and thus, profitability. And, as enterprises follow this guiding principle, I see the following business technology areas making an impact in 2012.

Big Data

With the massive data explosion that we are already encountering across sectors such as telecommunication, manufacturing, retail as well as web-based applications, it is paramount to look at the potential opportunities for architecting solutions in an innovative way.

The pressing need to securely store, analyse and correlate data is what the coming time will witness. The growing trend of big companies using data analysis to conduct trials in order to make right management decisions, to forecast the demand and supply gap, and to improve their product offering and services gives Big Data a major push for implementation.

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It is now easy to envisage a data thrust to the tune of trillion bytes and thus the need to manage Big Data. There is a need for an integrated and comprehensive software framework that enhances technology to withstand the demands of your company’s administrative, security, and research assignments.

Beyond Virtualisation: The Cloud Way

The real intent of virtualisation was to centralise IT tasks while improving scalability and reducing time consumption. Here the infrastructure management is agnostic to the user and utilises central computing which in turn enhances the “pay-per- need” basis utility.

What I see as beyond virtualisation concept and its implementation is that a clear distinction needs to be drawn about the cloud model that you aim to develop. When it comes to the choice between public and private cloud models, the private cloud can offer increased infrastructure efficiency with enhanced control, extended uptime for a large enterprise and High Performance Computing (HPC). Whereas, hosting on a public cloud comes with its own advantages.

Fixed Media Convergence

The idea of convergence of media can be termed as Unified Synergy. There are three phases for Unified Synergy: manual synergy, semi-automatic synergy, and intelligent synergy. During the last two phases, the driving force and strategy to adopt this technology will play an important role, because it brings the following changes:

Lean Operation

For long time now, we've been trying to undo the bonding of knowledge workers from their desks so they can interact with one another and work wherever they go. There is a potential to increase efficiency of operation at individual level and thus at a corporate level by adopting a flexible infrastructure.