Emerging Technology Trends And Business Opportunities For Solution/service Providers

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Rapid technological advancements are transforming the business scenario. Globalization and technology unification are shortening product life cycles and innovating the entire world. Your organization should be capable of quickly embracing emerging trends and adjusting to the changing market dynamics. Technology consulting can always help you to implement the most effective trends.

Here are the emerging technology trends and business opportunities for solutions/service providers:
1. Software Defined Everything
Software-defined everything leads to genuine interoperability standards, and individual technology suppliers abandon functioning in silos with proprietary rules and regulations. They can only offer value to customers if they are capable of offering all the elements of network, storage, and computing.

Below are the business opportunities for solution/service providers:

● Software Defined Storage (SDS)
● Supporting software-defined storage apps from top storage vendors
● Support SDS products for extending them to other platforms
● Build test strategy, tools, ...
... frameworks, and different types of testing opportunities
● Software Defined Networking (SDN)
● Network orchestration and automation
● Professional services, such as SDN or Network Function Virtualization (NFV) implementation consulting and NFV testing for telecom vendors
2. Flash
Many organizations are experimenting with Flash technology, which offers a lot of business opportunities. Start-ups are mainly flash players and prefer to conduct core operations internally and outsource secondary activities.

The big industry players will get massive product engineering opportunities in the form of testing. They will intend to shift products from the current legacy to all flash-based platforms. Flash storage OEMs consume PCIe-based cards, AHCI, and NVMe interfaces. Most of these solutions are targeted at cloud service providers.
3. OpenStack
An increasing number of enterprises are adopting Open Stack. The telecom industry will boost the growth of OpenStack, which is the key driver for NFV.

The following are business opportunities for solution/service providers:

● Help storage vendors to enable their OpenStack storage
● Help enterprises set up OpenStack cloud, and deliver professional services
● Big storage vendors can build OpenStack platforms with secondary underlying frameworks. It creates automation and integration opportunities
4. Server SAN
Server SAN involves distributing and sharing storage across numerous nodes. It is a framework, which converts several Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) devices to a collection of shared resources through a high-speed interconnection, like InfiniBand/Low-latency Ethernet.

Quantum StorNext, EMC ScaleIO, and VMware’s VSAN are some of the major Server SAN solutions. Technology consulting helps you identify which of these solutions can work the best for your business.
5. BYOD

Businesses implement BYOD to save costs on hardware and software or fulfill the mobile workforce's expectations.

Below are some of the business opportunities for solution and service providers:

• Solution accelerators and automation infrastructures in desktop virtualization, content collaboration, image management and Bring Your PC solutions
• The users are increasingly depending on endpoints, devices with less processing power, smaller screens, and no keyboard

6. Hyper/Converged Infrastructure
The significantly improved processing power is driving the hyper/converged infrastructure trend and its faster adoption by data centers. All the leading infrastructure providers are shifting towards the converged area. Several industry players, such as Intel, IBM, Dell, and HP, are competing to get a big market share in the converged framework space to protect their market pie share.

Hyper-converged infrastructure is seamless. A single vendor builds a full infrastructure by combining all pieces that constitute a traditional framework in today's marketplace and putting them inside a box. When it comes to converged infrastructure, vendors collect the fundamental storage pieces of network, storage, computing, and server virtualization from various companies. They add a management layer on the top to easily deploy and manage those pieces and make them fully operative.
7. IOT
IOT is known by terms, such as Internet of Everything (IoE) by Cisco, Industrial Internet by GE, and Smart Planet by IBM. IOT is driven by a significant increase in the collection of data volumes from different types of sensors used by a business and the benefits offered by sensor data analysis.
8. Big Data Analytics
As enterprises look for various data sources and apps to get detailed information about the marketplace, products, and customers, they are competing to build optimized cloud platforms to use real-time data streams/ massive data. Many are opting for data analytics engineering services to get this work done.

Below are some of the opportunities for solution/service providers to offer big data implementation and analytics outsourcing services:

● Big data-related professional services, such as data migration and maintenance
● Big data technology application, including data collection, integration, and Big Data framework
● Log and sensor analytics creates opportunities for data science specialists

9. Cloud Computing
Cloud computing ensures growth in all areas, including IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS. Businesses are using a cloud-based system because of the increasingly hybrid cloud architectures that include a combination of private and public clouds.
PaaS helps businesses to save IT costs. It quickens application development through more effective testing and deployment.