A few weeks ago at our annual partner conference NetApp Insight, Jay Kidd made the prediction that by 2017 everyone who works in IT will have to think like a service provider. Whether you work for a company that is offering IT as a service to your customers – the set of customers who write you checks – or you work inside an enterprise, and provide IT to the company who writes your paycheck, you’re in the service provider business. And delivering IT as a service requires different thinking. Below are a few technology predictions to look for in 2013 as we make the march towards IT as a service.

1. Predictions for 2013
Big and Bit Players Will Jump into the All Flash-Array Market with Both Feet
30% of Organizations Will Move Some Part of Their
Enterprise Application Portfolio to the Cloud
There Will Be a Double Standard in Hypervisors
In-Memory Computing Will Create a
New Class of Transpredictive Apps
Clustered Storage Will Drive Efficiency in Storage Operations
Converged Infrastructures Will Replace Single-Vendor Stack Models
Enterprise Alternatives to Public Drop Boxes Will Gain Traction
Object Storage Will Be in the Enterprise
The PaaS Shootout Will Lead to Vendor Cooperation and Openness
The “Software-Defined Infrastructure” Will Become Tangible
3 Will Fail and 30 Will Start