FEATURE: 2019 TECHNOLOGY FORECAST
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Digital trends are ever
transforming with the
help of technologies such
as multi-cloud, legacy
systems and AI, and this is
only set to continue into
the new year. We spoke
to several experts who
reveal their predictions
for the technological
landscape in 2019.
Jon Toor, CMO at Cloudian
Cloud continues to dominate
Jon Toor, CMO at Cloudian, believes cloud
repatriation will increase. He said: “While
the growth of the public cloud will remain
strong, enterprises will expand their adoption
of on-premise private clouds in a hybrid
cloud model. This will include repatriating
data from the public cloud to avoid the
bandwidth, latency and cost issues that can
arise when accessing such data.”
I
t has been another whirlwind year of
events in the tech industry – we saw
the implementation of GDPR, IBM
purchase RedHat, Facebook suffer a
major data breach and the MET office’s
website crash under pressure, to name but
a few. As we move towards a new year we
leave the incidents of 2018 in the past and
look forward to a prosperous 2019.
With this in mind, Intelligent CIO Europe
spoke to several IT experts to find out what
technology trends are set to shape 2019.
Here’s what they had to say:
Jake Madders, Director at Hyve Managed
Hosting, commented: “A lot of industry talk
is focused around the biggest cloud players
– Google, AWS, Azure – and their next move.
But it’s important to take notice of the wider
cloud and hosting industry which offers
a huge range of highly competitive and
innovative solutions, particularly in key areas
such as hybrid cloud technology, managed
services and security. The UK cloud industry
in particular is a vibrant and ambitious sector
and 2019 will see more great examples of
domestic and international growth. Some UK
cloud businesses are taking their ambition
IT experts weigh in on
tech trends predicted
to shape 2019
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