Introduction: In this first of two articles on the 2013 IDC Directions conference (March 5th in Santa Clara, CA) we report on the very impressive opening and closing keynote presentations. IDC Chief Analyst Frank Gens’ opening keynote presentation stressed the importance of the “3rd Platform,” examined public vs private cloud adoption, and the most likely corporate apps that would be moving to the cloud. Professor Robert Reich’s closing keynote speech provided insight and perspective about the U.S. and global economy. Frank Gens on the Significance of the 3rd Platform (mobile, social, cloud, big data): For the past four years, IDC has been saying that the 3rd Platform for IT (mobile device accessed, cloud based, social networking, and big data analytics) will supplant the 2nd Platform (distributed computing via client/server/PC) solutions that are prevalent in the market today. According to Mr Gens, we are about to enter the second chapter of 3rd Platform adoption within the IT industry. IDC asked IT executives and CIOs: ”In 3 years, what % of your total IT delivery will be through some form of cloud (public and private)?” Survey results: 45.5% with Private Cloud at 65% and Public Cloud at 35%. The key message at this [...]
↧