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The 2015 Top Ten IT Pro-Dictions

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The Top Ten IT Pro-Dictions

The SolarWinds High Council of Head Geeks has gathered their sage and eternally savvy wisdom. You would be wise to heed their words

~ Knowstradamus

SolarWinds 2015 Head Geek Predictions

As 2014 comes to a close and 2015 begins, SolarWinds tapped its band of experts – the Head Geeks – to take a look inside their crystal balls and provide a glimpse into IT trends to watch for this year.

To complement the IT predictions from the Head Geeks, we’d like you to share your view of each (50 thwack points will be awarded for replies!). And don’t be afraid to go out on a limb and suggest a “paranoid perspective” for 2015 – Will networks become so complex that they are nearly impossible to manage? Security vulnerabilities so vast that all companies will experience at least one? Will the hybrid cloud transition create more headaches than benefits? Will business end users stage a revolt? Be sure to @mention each geek to continue the conversation with them about their predictions. Here are each of their thwack handles:

Kong Yang - @kong.yang

Lawrence Garvin – @LGarvin

Patrick Hubbard - @patrick.hubbard

Leon Adato - @adatole

Thomas LaRock - @sqlrockstar

Throughout the year, we plan to revisit these predictions and see how are becoming a reality, or instead, how many are turning out to be a completely paranoid fantasy.

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    Joshua Biggley, I'm pretty sure you're stalking my brain right now. I find consumer technology to have historically driven the mainstream IT market and it will continue to do so in 2015, but with more speed and precision. That is to say, as Lawrence Garvin mentioned with the iPhone, as the IoT (or Web2.0+) continues to blossom out of infancy, the impact of consumers and their Smart-Everything (Smart Homes, I'm looking at you) will inevitably shape the expectation of data delivery in the work place. It already does. I get calls and emails frequently from my users that claim they can work faster using their phones and question why internet access is so slow when they have 100Mbps connections at their homes. These are honest concerns that we in the IT industry must face daily. Is it fair that we provide comparatively inadequate service and speed? No, but it's the reality for most SMB companies, even the medium ones that are growing into legitimate large businesses in their markets. Trying to keep up with the Jones' (the Jones' being the consumer electronics and internet services markets) can be overwhelming, expensive and deadly to an SMB.

    Again, to reiterate Joshua Biggley, consumers have grown to synonymize the general stability, ease of use and consistent performance of consumer grade electronics, home goods and peripherals with that of corporate IT and expect the same performance and reliability when at work. That's where we come in, the IT pro with Enterprise Monitoring Tools like SolarWinds. Without an ear to the ground and an eye on the sky, we will fail our users.

    The buzz words for 2015 will continue to be: Smart, Connected. Compatible.

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    FormerMember

    Joshua Biggley, I'm pretty sure you're stalking my brain right now. I find consumer technology to have historically driven the mainstream IT market and it will continue to do so in 2015, but with more speed and precision. That is to say, as Lawrence Garvin mentioned with the iPhone, as the IoT (or Web2.0+) continues to blossom out of infancy, the impact of consumers and their Smart-Everything (Smart Homes, I'm looking at you) will inevitably shape the expectation of data delivery in the work place. It already does. I get calls and emails frequently from my users that claim they can work faster using their phones and question why internet access is so slow when they have 100Mbps connections at their homes. These are honest concerns that we in the IT industry must face daily. Is it fair that we provide comparatively inadequate service and speed? No, but it's the reality for most SMB companies, even the medium ones that are growing into legitimate large businesses in their markets. Trying to keep up with the Jones' (the Jones' being the consumer electronics and internet services markets) can be overwhelming, expensive and deadly to an SMB.

    Again, to reiterate Joshua Biggley, consumers have grown to synonymize the general stability, ease of use and consistent performance of consumer grade electronics, home goods and peripherals with that of corporate IT and expect the same performance and reliability when at work. That's where we come in, the IT pro with Enterprise Monitoring Tools like SolarWinds. Without an ear to the ground and an eye on the sky, we will fail our users.

    The buzz words for 2015 will continue to be: Smart, Connected. Compatible.

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