Today four converging IT trends are changing the IT paradigm and will forever change the way businesses communicate, collaborate, store and manage information. Each on its own would have significant impact without the others. However, combined together, they are a disruptive force.
They are:
Mobile devices (BYOD) are becoming a universal portal for individual access to personal and business information.
Social media has moved beyond its initial use case (our kids) to infiltrate businesses for data access, business collaboration, Business to Consumer and more recently Business to Business communication.
Information growth (volume) with rapid access (velocity) from multiple sources (variety) continues unabated and is enabling ‘Big Data’ as predicted a few years ago.
Cloud is becoming increasingly more mainstream from a compute, data retention and access perspective, enabling global information access.