Roaring Elephant

Welcome to 2018! And welcome to our 110% fact based prediction show for 2018. As you may expect from your two hosts, everything in this episode is 110% sure to become reality in the next twelve months.   And since 110% is not actually possible, our predictions might also be just a little bit off? But we have 365 days to bask in the glory of our predictions before we, as usual, are shot back down to earth. Nancy comic Dave The year of cloud first and hybrid cloud Many organisations will move from solely on prem to cloud or hybrid with new workloads seeking alternatives to their traditional on-prem. Edge computing for IoT With edge devices becoming more powerful and IoT workloads increasing (and bandwidth not getting cheaper at the same rate) we'll see more of the intelligence pushed further to the edge. GDPR will fundamentally change the face of data governance, collection, anon, retention in big data GDPR regulations start to arrive in the form of concrete plans being in place and