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Jay Kidd

Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President

2014 Predictions

Prediction

Hybrid Clouds Become the Dominant Vision for IT

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Prediction

Hunger Games Begin for All Flash Startups

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Prediction

If you work in IT, you are a Service Provider

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Prediction

Reality vs. Hype Becomes Clear around Software Defined Storage

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Prediction

Storage Virtual Machines Enable Data Mobility

and Application Agility

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EMC

SVM SVM

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SVMSVM

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Prediction

OpenStack Survives the Hype, Moves Beyond Early Adopters

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Prediction

Questions on Data Sovereignty will Impact Private and Public Storage

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Prediction

40GbE Adoption Takes Off in the Datacenter

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Prediction

Big Data Evolves from Analyzing Data You Have to Driving the Collection of New Data

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Prediction

Clustered Storage, Converged Infrastructure, Object Storage, In-Memory Databases All Continue Momentum in 2014

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