Executives Face New Tech: Beyond Cloud and Mobile

thank you hi I'm James McGuire editor of datomation and our topic today is new research from Queen Street about the priorities of I.T and business Executives everything from Smart Technologies to internet of things to BPM some of those Technologies are on the way up some are getting less investment and we'll talk about why to discuss that I'm joined by three of my editorial colleagues including Sean Michael Kerner senior editor of e-week and internet news hello to you Sean hello James and everyone out there in YouTube wonderful Thursday and I'm in the great white North not as sunny as other places but it's doing okay fantastic and remind me again you tell like the the cap is is is who Toronto Blue Jays as of yesterday American League East champions uh beat out Yankees Red Sox Tampa Bay Etc first time in 22 years so everybody in my neck of the woods is quite excited go go Blue Jays exactly uh also with us is uh Kachina Shaw managing editor of it businesses hey James and everybody uh and I know you you know it business actually covers the gamut of Information Technology so I know you really got your your finger in the pulse of these Technologies well we try and so we get today we're going to get to talk about uh all the stuff that we write about every day so uh I'm ready to do that with you guys all right uh also with us is Chris primesberger editor of a Futures and Analysis at eweek hello to you Chris hi James and uh Katrina and Katrina and and Sean smk I like to call him smk I call him the dude and Chris I know that if I'm you know driving in Silicon Valley and I stop somewhere I'm gonna likely see you because I think of you as Mr Silicon Valley somehow well that's thank you that's a compliment but yeah uh the traffic has precluded me from actually driving around very much uh lately it's pretty busy around here a lot of people moving in a lot of jobs being filled a lot of buses taking employees from one place to another it's uh I haven't seen it quite this busy since for 15 15 years at least yeah although all those tests slows driving around too you gotta want you don't want to hit one of those no you don't want to hit one of those driverless Google cards either because they're out there too right so the the new research report it is uh it's from Quinn Street it's titled move over cloud and Mobility Executives have their eye on new technologies and it's it's a survey of 250 Executives it's a lot of stuff a lot of a lot you know data numbers factoids I'm curious the three of you looking at all this information what what struck you in particular knowing it as you do I mean Katrina what what struck you in the report is particularly noteworthy oh well one thing that I was looking at that um seemed a little um maybe surprising in a way is that the non-executives that were included in the cert non-it Executives excuse me the business Executives exactly um they're very keen on pursuing the benefits of what we're calling Smart Technologies which is includes a lot of different tools and options but they put that uh the non-it folks put that in their top three initiatives for this list and I'm thinking that is because they are already seeing um the benefits that some of these Smart Technologies wearables and other combinations could create not only in improving processes but even eliminating a lot of processes that are currently in place so we're seeing a very top-down approach in this area it's kind of different from another huge trend that's been going on with BYOD which was very bottom up and it didn't place it in their top three initiatives so they're going to want to make sure that their the two groups are communicating very well on what the goals are and what the timeline is it's funny that the business folks put um the the wearables over what the it folks put how would you explain that one I guess it's just that the it folks are still trying to take care of initiatives that are already in place uh that would be my best guess and maybe next time around it'll move up um in priority for them but they have a lot going on so there's only you can only pick two three top three things yeah I T people don't want to touch the wearables right now they've got too much on their plate yeah absolutely right they abhor the idea of having to control you know wearable computers other wearable computers they don't want to do it another new toy who for in their eyes it's like who needs you know yet more uh to deal with yeah exactly Sean what about your wearables are you how many wearables are you are you wearing today uh today only two uh but that's okay just you know standard to tracker and then I've got a lumo for my back because uh in this business I settled way too much so it's uh a risk so it buzzes me every 15 minutes so if you see me stand up just uh just because you know being shocked into it uh but yeah wearables are interesting for me wearables are you know there's security risk uh because you don't know if you can update them which is fine and nice uh the other thing is there's no visibility or control because the vast majority of these things are just connected over Bluetooth and I've never met an Enterprise I.T manager that actually manages Bluetooth that's usually an individual user so there's no policies for that there's no monitoring for that you don't know what's going on so uh you know if somebody's trying to exfiltrate data that is take data from one place to another they do it over Bluetooth how are you going to know so it's a it's a wide open world it was just was it yesterday it was early this morning I guess it was uh the LG people announced their new uh Urbane with 4G LTE on a watch now that would be exciting it sounds fancy yeah I I would pre-order it right away because the Bluetooth is one thing but if I could have you know a full Dick Tracy watch and call from my watch that would be great but same challenge for it no visibility same risks for uh for data though so what what did you find in the report what really stuck out from you in terms of being particularly noteworthy a few a few things actually uh and I've got cheat notes in front of me oh good yeah it's always the right thing and uh to all our uh our good listeners here and all the people participating watching this hangout uh I strongly encourage everyone to uh click on the links uh from our different stories to uh to investigate this but I like digging into the details uh there was a very interesting um mix I like looking at the year over year so last year uh Cloud investment was higher than you this year so for some reason the cloud investment went down but then on the flip side the investment in virtualization went up most people I talk to think of cloud and virtualization as the same coin not even two sides of the same coin the same side of the same coin so I I was kind of interested to see what that's all about but then there's another data point a little bit later from a different question where it shows that one of the year over year increases was in the uh increase of integrating the cloud Center so yeah so it's kind of an interesting when you ask people three questions the same question three different ways you get two different answers here so some of them said you know Cloud Investments going down uh they're all saying virtualizations going up but they're all saying that the investment in uh in clouded data centers going up so what that says to me is there's a there's an interesting mix uh going on so people probably think of cloud as you know metered by the drink Amazon kind of thing and they're thinking virtualization VMware seats and licenses uh and then the data center is their own cost so there's there's a couple different things happening here I I don't know how it's going to shake out but that's that's what I find interesting is the uh I guess it is almost the confusion as it were I hate to use the word confusion but the confusion I think it's called for in this case yeah there's an element of confusion flux to be sure yeah different answers to the same question are you investing more in the cloud or not looking at the statistics it was it was item number six in terms of priority was Cloud investment so in years past that would have been higher but right behind that at number seven was as you say integrating cloud and data center and that's actually going up if I remember correctly and so if you put them together number six and number seven that's actually a higher priority than you might think so I I take from that but cloud is uh it's not quite old news it's not as Cutting Edge as it once was I'd say in essence it's now considered mainstream technology which makes perfect sense yeah one thing that this study didn't specifically call out though I know uh in our various analysis we probably have or will uh is this uh you know hybrid uh there are good friends at VMware have changed that word now they call it what do they call it the VMware vcloud air uh it's all air right they don't like using that word it's better than vaporware it's true I still like using the word hybrid so when I see that you know integration of data center in the cloud I see hybrid because there are some workloads that should go to the cloud some that should say a private I know you Chris had a great uh slideshow on e-week the other day uh what to put in the cloud uh so we've done some great work in that area uh not everything should go to the cloud not everything should stay on premise so it's it's not a it's not a black and white situation and there's I think I.T people and organizations are figuring out what's what no yeah I mean I would say clearly looking to the future of the cloud and some of the confusion in this in the stats suggests this it's all going to be hybrid in one way or the other I don't think the in-house Data Center May fade but it's not going to go away for the foreseeable future I mean in a sense we are necessarily in a hybrid world you know what I would agree with you except that there's one notable exception uh which is Netflix uh and everybody points to Netflix as the poster child for Amazon if Netflix can do it without a data center uh I'm sure the Amazon people will say and they've got their wonderful re invent next week they'll have probably lots of people on stage they'll say well why can't you so I I'm not so sure and I agree with you I think there should be there always should be a mix but there'll always be people who will point to Netflix and say hey look they can do it

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