{"id":1037,"date":"2012-12-18T15:28:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-no.104.210.61.21.xip.io\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2012-12-18T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:28:02","slug":"wozniaks-predictions-for-2013-the-data-center-mobility-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"Wozniak\u2019s Predictions for 2013: The Data Center, Mobility and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across this article this morning, read it here, or follow the link to slashdot<\/h4>\n

http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/datacenter\/wozniaks-predictions-for-2013-the-data-center-mobility-and-beyond\/<\/p>\n

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak predicts great things for data centers in 2013, along with an interesting take on BYOD.<\/h4>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Wozniak\u2019s 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 \u201cremote controls,\u201d so to speak, of the world.<\/p>\n

Although he\u2019s most famous as the co-founder of Apple, Wozniak currently serves as chief scientist at Fusion-io<\/a>, a manufacturer of enterprise flash storage for data centers and other devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cData center technologies will be to 2013 what the cloud will be to 2012,\u201d Wozniak, who is a contributor to the Forbes<\/em> magazine Web site, wrote in a guest post<\/a>. \u201cI think more focus will be paid to enterprise data center technologies because of the improving ability to utilize the data center in a proactive way. The rapid transition from hard disk to NAND flash memories in the data center is drastically improving performance, reliability and the ability to distribute everything through virtual machines\u2014which will lead to the de-centralization of cloud services.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added: \u201cEnterprises with different offices in multiple cities will run the same cloud services out of each office and have the cloud services talk to each other to ensure synchronization\u2013improving overall efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

The unifying thesis to the predictions\u2014although Wozniak doesn\u2019t really come forward and explicitly state it\u2014is 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 \u201cBring Your Own Device\u201d (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.<\/p>\n

Wozniak predicts that collaboration tools will dominate\u2014while noting that these collaboration tools must run on a variety of platforms, not just one.<\/p>\n

He also claims that companies will increasingly offer their employees mobile devices that feel like company property\u2014ones that employees will happily tailor to their own needs, given the chance. \u201cBusinesses will learn that it is worth investing resources to diversify the platforms and devices they provide and support\u2014not just for efficiency\u2019s sake but to also increase morale,\u201d he wrote. \u201c\u2018Choice\u2019 is happiness and will become a motivational tool enterprises use to their advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

On top of that, he offers something fairly novel: that mobile devices will increasingly become local repositories for information shared between owners, who\u2019ll use those devices to control their environment:<\/p>\n

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\u201cEventually, maybe not within 2013, flexible displays will become less expensive, installed everywhere and anywhere, and change the way we interact with mobile devices and share experiences. I honestly believe mobile devices will increasingly become our remote controls to the world. We\u2019ll carry our software on our mobile devices, but display it on these communal screens\u2013including those installed in conference rooms. Device manufacturers will continue to develop mobile devices with various screen sizes, but software will also be designed to display on any size.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We can see the beginnings of this, such as giant displays in conference rooms that\u2019ll sync with a laptop or tablet, the concept of \u201cthrowing\u201d 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\u2019s not exactly a new concept, but its requirements could demand some new thinking in terms of how backend infrastructure is structured and provisioned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ran across this article this morning, read it here, or follow the link to slashdot http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/datacenter\/wozniaks-predictions-for-2013-the-data-center-mobility-and-beyond\/   Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak predicts great things for data centers in 2013, along with an interesting take on BYOD. Tech icon Steve Wozniak has come forward with several predictions for 2013, with data center technologies an important …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}