For the last several years, there has been an increased focus on enterprise technology. 2015 was yet another exciting year, with an increase in available cloud technology; new tools to help manage hybrid cloud configurations; and advancements in security, storage and business continuity services. Headlines continuously covered ground-breaking mergers and acquisitions, all too several data breaches and much speculation over cloud computing. The advances of the past year left the industry with big expectations for 2016 and have resulted in a plethora of prediction pieces about Internet performance, the Internet of things (IoT), the cloud and cloud services, software-as-a-service (SaaS) integrations, and Internet protocols and policies. However, with all of the opinions about what IT executives should be focused on in the coming year, it can be hard to know what's just hype and what trends vendors truly need to pay attention to this year. In other words, which predictions will come to fruition and which ones will flop? Dyn's Chief Technology Officer Matt Larson has some answers.
- eWeek