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Tech icon Steve Wozniak has come forward with several predictions for 2013, with data center technologies an important part of the list.
Wozniak’s predictions are based on a series of conversations he had recently with Brett Shockley, senior vice president and general manager of applications and emerging technologies at Avaya. They trace an arc from the consumer space up through the enterprise, with an interesting take on the BYOD phenomenon: Woz believes that mobile devices will eventually become the “remote controls,” so to speak, of the world.
Although he’s most famous as the co-founder of Apple, Wozniak currently serves as chief scientist at Fusion-io, a manufacturer of enterprise flash storage for data centers and other devices.
The unifying thesis to the predictions—although Wozniak doesn’t really come forward and explicitly state it—is that consumer technologies will control the direction of the enterprise, with individual hardware, software and service components influencing the direction of other components. A lot of this may be summed up by the so-called “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) movement, in which employees use personal devices for work tasks such as enterprise apps. In his own way, Wozniak is suggesting that this trend shows no signs of slowing down in the near term.
Wozniak predicts that collaboration tools will dominate—while noting that these collaboration tools must run on a variety of platforms, not just one.
We can see the beginnings of this, such as giant displays in conference rooms that’ll sync with a laptop or tablet, the concept of “throwing” content onto a nearby display has been largely constrained to entertainment. But imagine collaborative workspaces in which groups of workers participate via their tablets or PCs: the cloud becomes a super-assistant of sorts, hosting a shared workspace while providing computational resources for all users. That’s not exactly a new concept, but its requirements could demand some new thinking in terms of how backend infrastructure is structured and provisioned.
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