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Business and technology predictions for Asia Pacific in 2015

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), has released its business and technology predictions for Asia Pacific in 2015.

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), has released its business and technology predictions for Asia Pacific in 2015.

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Adrian De Luca, chief technology officer, Hitachi Data Systems Asia Pacific, says,  “The era of Business-Defined IT is here, and the time for IT to embrace the third platform that is built on mobile devices, cloud services, social networks and big data analytics is now. The CIO must respond to these requirements and become an architect and broker of business services rather than a technology-builder focused on data centre infrastructure.”

He cited the building of smart cities, big data in competitive industries, hybrid clouds, data driven mobility and regulatory developments as the five key trends that, combined with the local business drivers, will shape the IT landscape in the Asia Pacific region in 2015.

1  Smart city initiatives will drive greater investment in the Internet of Things

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Governments across APAC, including Japan, India, China, Sri Lanka and South Korea, are embarking on smart city initiatives to tackle urban challenges, manage energy and resource consumption and prepare for further growth.

2  Industries will ramp up their big data initiatives to gain a competitive advantage

Big Data has become a key business imperative for organisations operating in highly-competitive industries.

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The next generation of big data solutions will not only require new infrastructure platforms to store and manage vast data lakes, but also the ability to analyse the data in real-time. To do this, scale-out infrastructure with machine learning, business context software will need to be tightly integrated to enable rapid and predictable deployment and to ensure optimal operation.

3  Hybrid clouds will emerge as the preferred approach for deploying enterprise applications

As cloud platforms reach a level of functionality and mature, the stage is set for organisations to transform their core applications to leverage a mix of private and public clouds. Solutions that can integrate both platforms to deliver a seamless hybrid cloud experience will enable organisations to achieve better cost alignment while meeting privacy and compliance requirements.

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Savvy CIOs have been taking the initiative to move enterprise and mission-critical applications onto private clouds and at the same time experiment with the public cloud for transient internal workloads and even customer-facing web applications. With the public cloud however, the ease with which instances can be spun up and paid for is also resulting in “cloud sprawl”.

4 The mobile explosion will require the technology infrastructure to be more data-driven

Over the past 5 years, IT organisations and cloud service providers have been investing in object storage technologies to protect and preserve data for longer periods of time. A critical foundation for this is data-driven storage that enables enterprises to manage multi-tenancy, extend metadata to enable linkages to other data sets, and carry out data deduplication and compression to curb growing costs.

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With data now moving through various cloud models, these capabilities also have to be made available beyond the 4 walls of the data centre. Enterprises have to find ways to enable intelligent and efficient remote access to applications and data, and allow information to be shared conveniently via intelligent devices while ensuring that sensitive data is protected.

5  With new regulations governing data privacy and protection, businesses will increase compliance-related investments

Governments across Asia Pacific are introducing new privacy regulations or updating existing ones. For enterprises, this presents a growing challenge with the rapid proliferation of information from multiple platforms and channels.

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