Veeam CEO’s Cloud, Tech and Data Center Predictions for 2016

Veeam CEO’s Cloud, Tech and Data Center Predictions for 2016

Ratmir Timashev is the CEO of Veeam, a fast growing enterprise data center availability software company. In eight years, the company has gone from a startup to a profitable global company. And, without any venture capital investment.

To accomplish such a feat, Timashev has to have a clear vision of how the market will evolve. In 2006, he saw how virtualization, advanced storage and cloud would eventually come together to make the always-on enterprise a reality. He’s a strong believer that the best way to predict the future is to build it.

That said, he’s got some provocative ideas about what 2016 will bring. Here’s his predictions for tech, cloud and the enterprise data center for the next year:

• 2016 will be the biggest year ever for IT acquisitions: By the middle of November, 2015 was already the biggest year in history for IT acquisitions at $571 billion, measured by the total value of the deals. 2016 should be even bigger, fueled by legacy vendors’ fear of being left behind as enterprises move inexorably to the cloud and as pure cloud companies seek to become dominant players in their markets.

• The cloud will accelerate the pace at which it devours large legacy technology vendors: We have already seen serious disruption from the cloud in 2015. The Dell-EMC merger and the Symantec split were forced by the rise of the cloud, at least in part. In each case, incumbents are struggling to stay relevant and survive. The cloud is going to eat these dinosaurs and make new players shine. Expect even more disruption next year.

• The big three clouds (i.e., Azure, Google and Amazon) will focus even more heavily on forming partnerships to drive consumption: Microsoft is leading the way here, forming Azure partnerships with ISVs and infrastructure vendors at a rapid pace, including giants like HP Enterprise and other cloud players like Rackspace. Google and Amazon will step up their game in a big way next year to get third-party ISVs offering services on their platforms, driving cloud adoption to grow at a triple digit pace.

• Massive data growth will continue: Data will grow more than 50% in 2016 and the number of workloads on-premises will see huge growth. Workloads in the cloud will grow at an even faster rate.

• 2016 will not be the year that containers break out: Container companies are still too young to become a serious force, even if the entry of Microsoft into the market speeds up adoption. Look to 2017 or 2018 for containers to have a big impact on business IT.

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