by Liem Nguyen, (former) Director of Communications and Social Media, Dell Storage — December 09, 2010
Thanks to all who joined us for the December #SANchat – the topic “11 Trends for 2011” brought some new folks to the board to discuss a variety of theories. If you missed the discussion you can catch up below on some of the topics and links, read the transcript, and find some new faces to follow on Twitter. Thanks again to our guest moderator Stephen Foskett for leading the conversation.
The Highlights
You can’t have a trends discussion without talking about the trendiest topic in the IT industry: yes, the cloud. Interestingly enough, one of the hot topics was actually cloud fatigue – the notion that the term ‘cloud’ will fall by the wayside as adoption continues:
@sfoskett: As @SamJ said the first time I met him, we'll know that cloud computing is successful when it's just called "computing"
The conversation also turned to the death of RAID – Stephen pointed out that RAID isn't dead as a general concept but the implementation has to change entirely. Also @virtual_bill pointed out that SSDs might improve the performance of RAID as far as device failures are concerned.
We also had a fun exchange on smartphones and tablets in the datacenter – what role will they play in the future?
@virtual_bill: Both have a place in datacenter assuming interfaces exist for proper display. Tablets better now as they may run fuller OS.
@sfoskett: I love some of the cool enterprise applications I'm seeing for the iPad: @OmniGraffle, iSSH and vnc http://bit.ly/5llsTV
Wrapping up on FCoE, the group generally agreed that network convergence is imminent, though Stephen says 2011 will see lots of chatter about FCoE, but it won't have real customer traction until 2014 or later:
@sfoskett: @stu I think you kinda need functioning product and customer adoption to end the protocol wars. Wake me in 2014...
The Links
During the conversation the participants shared a variety of links worth taking a look at; here a list of some of the best:
The Tweeps
We had mix of some regulars and new faces this month; here is a list of some new technology friends to follow:
@sfoskett
@Niketown588
@virtual_bill
@webjunkie
@stu
@nkampwerth
@SomeClown
@johnobeto
@nigelpoulton
@jonisick
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, January 5 for our next #SANchat, until then have a safe and happy holiday, whichever one you celebrate!