Partners Name The Hottest Trends in IT

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CRNtv asked partners to name the growing IT trends that excite them the most. Their answers varied, but they all pointed to one thing: The channel has multiple avenues for growth right now.

’I definitely think it’s mobile,’ said Cumulus Global CEO Allen Falcon. ’Businesses are really looking to do everything from their mobile devices, not just email.’

’Really the trend we’re looking forward to is the continued maturity of enterprise IT. So we’ve got all these great technologies and enterprise technologies out there, but really watching businesses try to figure out how to use them in ways that make them much more mature as a process and much more mature as an organization,’ Denali CEO Michael Leeper said.

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He named mobile, data center consolidation and cloud as growing sectors that have the ability to provide tangible value to businesses.

Siwel Consulting’s Tony Scicchitano named big data analytics as the trend he’s watching.

’From the infrastructure layer all the way up through business intelligence,’ he said, ’it’s really about getting diverse sources of data, internal to your company as well as external.’

Mark Matheson, president of Distributed Technology Group, said he has a personal interest in the Internet of Things.

’From an infrastructure perspective and IT solution provider perspective, the software-defined data center – I find [that] really interesting. The newer companies, the hyper-converged companies, those bring a lot of disruption to the market,’ he added.

PUBLISHED OCT. 29, 2015