| | December 20138CIOReviewConstantin Delivanis, Co-Founder & CEO, BDNAFounded in 2000, BDNA provides the a comprehensive and accurate view into an organization's IT infrastructure.The Mountain View headquartered company has raised a funding of $35.9 million from Motorola Solutions Venture Capital, Crescendo Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Newbury Ventures and Flagship Ventures.Data Explosion is Transforming the IndustryAccording to IBM, everyday, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, so much that 90 percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years. While the data conversation has centered around the volume and velocity aspects, the industry has failed to address the variety and variability problems associated with the increase in data. Technology companies need to focus on developing solutions designed to solve the data variety and variability challenges that enterprises will face in the next two to four years.The sheer influx of data is creating an increased demand for data driven solutions to help solve the challenges associated with the data explosion. For example, the volume and variety of data coming from IT systems itself is drowning departments and the inability to apply market intelligence to this data is preventing them from extracting actionable insights from their investments. In order to help enterprises address these challenges, we foresee a continuation of the trends from software to software-as-a-service (SaaS), to platform-as-a-service (PaaS), to the growing need to data-as-a-service (DaaS). DaaS, for example, can help to provide an industrialized approach to clean and enrich IT data to be directly leveraged across all IT processes.Entrepreneurs Fail to Recognize the Legacy AnchorThe biggest challenge that entrepreneurs face is that when they create innovative enterprise solutions to address a big market need, they usually fail to recognize the legacy anchor. Failing to do so, prohibits enterprises from becoming the pervasive companies that they need to become in order to be successful. When building companies and products today, entrepreneurs must account for the legacy anchor, be able to work with it and only (after successfully working with it) can the enterprise replace the legacy anchor. "Software Defined Everything"key in Helping IT to Manage Michael Tso, CEO & Co-founder, CloudianThe Intel Capital funded Foster City based Cloudian is a enterprises and service providers that want to build a private Storage is exploding. Traditional storage like NAS and SAN are still growing healthily, but what is happening at either end is re-defining storage as we know it. At the high end, SSDs have become economical to provide RAM speeds at SAN costs, bringing all sorts of new possibilities to transaction processing and database workloads. At the other end, a new generation of software defined object storage technologies (aka cloud storage) are realizing "software defined datacenters" using nothing but software and commodity hardware, achieving incredible low costs and high densities. With this kind of savings and performance, the reality is that most of the world's data will probably end up in the cloud.Ubiquitous mobile connected devices are driving data storage to be centralized in the cloud, accessible from anywhere. The "Internet of Things" will bring even more data into the cloud. 90 percent of the world's data has been created in the last two years, and 90 percent of that is unstructured. This pace of growth is only accelerating with machine generated data. Traditional storage as we know will have to change and software defined object storage technology will be the key in helping IT with managing this storage growth.But, on a large scale, to get data under control the industry will need to collectively solve some big problems such as storing all this data economically, and getting useful information from the data, and how to determine what needs to be retained and what to not. Unstructured data means flexibility and scale are both important, CEO SpotlightConstantin Delivanis
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