The document discusses the shift towards hybrid multicloud architectures and the ensuing complexity in IT environments, emphasizing the need for simplicity in technology choices. It highlights predictions for 2020 regarding the advancement of AI-driven IoT, edge computing, and the transformative potential of indelible ledgers across various industries. To adapt, organizations are encouraged to invest in modern, flexible technologies that facilitate data-driven transformation.

1. With the widespread adoption of hybrid multicloud as the de facto IT
architecture for the enterprise, organizations everywhere are modernizing
to deliver tangible business value around data-intensive applications and
workloads such as AI-driven IoT and indelible ledgers.
Shifting from on-premises to public cloud services, from traditional IT to private
cloud, and from disk to flash – sometimes concurrently – opens the door to
enormous potential, but also the unintended consequence of IT complexity.
In 2020, the industry must prioritize simplicity. Vendors must match evolving
business models with modern, flexible technologies, such as commodity hardware
and software-based infrastructure virtualization, and provide choice in
consumption options.
The next decade will see
data-driven transformation
like never before. To keep
up, keep it simple.
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5G
• Lower-cost sensors, maturing AI apps =
compute-intensive edge environments
• High-bandwidth, low-latency capabilities enable
intelligent, instantaneous decision-making
• Edge devices become bigger, more diverse
(such as, connected solar farms)
• More data centers at the edge and platforms such as
AIOps will be necessary to monitor complex systems
• Indelible ledgers will transform wider industries
on a grander scale than cryptocurrency has
transformed finance
• Companies will invest in differentiated apps to
collaborate on critical datasets, like the healthcare
transformation with universal patient records
• Use cases validating indelible ledgers additional
widespread adoption of the technology will drive
transformation across society
PREDICTION 1 5G makes AI-driven IoT a reality
• Commodity hardware performance, software-based
virtualization and microservice software architectures
continue to improve rapidly
• Hardware-based composable architectures will be
relegated to niche data center roles
• Organizations will invest in combos of modern HCI
(including disaggregated HCI) and software-based
virtualization and containerization
PREDICTION 3 Infrastructure virtualization
wins vs. hardware-based
composable architecture
PREDICTION 2Enterprise-distributed
indelible ledgers push
blockchain beyond buzz
2020
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PREDICTIONS