2010 will be the year in which storage and connectivity play a key role for consumers, while social networking will find its way deeper into enterprises where virtualisation and cloud computing are moving forward.
Top-selling TV manufacturers showed off their latest version of 3D TVs at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.
With a rapid increase in digital information created by individuals, it is expected that consumers will need a higher efficient capacity storage. Viroj Assawarungsi, general manager of The Aspirers Group (TAG), IT media and organiser, said holographic storage will be a significant trend in revolutionising storage technology. Existing formats such as CDs or hard disk drives have reached a certain capability, whereas holographic storage, which uses laser beams to store data in three dimensions, has seen successful trials in early 2009 and is expected to be implemented within this year, capable of storing 500GB of data - 10 times more than a Blue-ray disk.
According to Viroj, technologies showcased at the CES 2010 are indicators of what will emerge in the near future, and potentially popular trends are:
3D TV and wireless home digital interface (WHDI) will gain popularity this year, said Viroj, noting that the development of 3D TV is traced back to the migration from black-and-white to colour, and analog to digital high definition, and now consumers will take experience of 3D from the movie theatre into their living room.
WHDI is the new high-definition connectivity standard that will change the way people use audio/video devices at home. It provides a high-quality, uncompressed wireless link which can support delivery of equivalent video data rate of up to 3Gbps in the 5GHz unlicensed band. "This will enable people on the ground floor to view movies or listen to music where the player is located upstairs. It is expected that Sharp, Sony and Samsung will be the first players to adopt this system," said Viroj.
Social networking has increasingly adopted by individuals and enterprises
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) will still be the leader in digital interface for high-definition consumer electronics from entry-level devices to high-end home theatre systems including TVs, set-top boxes, DVD players and A/V receivers.
Viroj predicted that Blu-ray will completely replace traditional DVD and it will become the standard drive for notebooks and desktops. "The price of Blu-ray players today is dropping some 40 percent and will meet critical mass soon. Philips has a announced a Blu-ray player for less than 10,000 baht and soon we will see products at around 6,000-7,000 baht," he said, adding that LED displays will also become more attractive because of falling prices.
The general manager stated that USB 3.0, which has connection speeds ten times faster than the present USB 2.0, from 480Mbps to be 4.8Gbps, will become a new trend. Even though it will become commonplace until late this year, every vendor is USB 3.0-ready. It is expected that all devices, including notebooks, desktops, mobile phones, GPS, and game consoles will use USB 3.0 by 2013.
3G and WiMax will lead to simple, high speed wireless communication and will transform handsets into mini computers featuring online music stores, mobile health monitoring, mobile payment, mobile browsing and messaging, and so on.
Holographic technology is expected to yield storage capacities up to a terabyte in the same current physical drive size.
"We may also view the prototype of Gigabit wireless networks this year," said Viroj. Gigabit WiFi: 802.11ac is the new standard that will run on 40-80 MHz.
Viroj added that Duo Core CPUs will still be mainstream this year even though Quad Core and Six Core is available.
Enterprise-wise
Social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook have risen in importance as communication tools and this year will find their way deeper into enterprise, according to Manoo Ordeedolchest, Software Park Thailand's chairman of the board of directors.
To deal with communities, there is no better tool than a social website, he said. "Twitter is small but it's very powerful and can draw a lot of people, We will see more and more organisations apply social networking for marketing purposes and customer relationship management," he said.
Manoo noted that virtualisation and cloud computing will also grow in importance, and virtualisation technology adoption will be apparent in every platform.On the software side, software-oriented architecture (SOA), lightweight technology that supports hardware and all software related to services, will play a significant role in the industry.
Meanwhile, open source software will be significant role in the industry. Major vendors such as IBM and Microsoft are going to convert to "commercial open source", Manoo said, noting that nothing is "free of charge open source" today, because even though they open the source code, users have to pay for maintenance and a better level of security such as RedHat and Linux, and there will be a lot of applications and middleware coming out.
Par Botes, CTO, Asia-Pacific & Japan, EMC Corporation, says three areas that can make a positive impact on the bottom line in a major way in 2010 are power-efficiency, virtualisation, and cloud computing.
These are looked at collectively as they cannot be approached in a silo-ed fashion. Virtualisation and cloud computing go hand-in-hand, while 80 percent of power efficiency is driven by virtualisation.
In the study "EMC 2010 Outlook for Asia Pacific & Japan", the CTO noted that in Singapore and the rest of Asia-Pacific, there seems to be an especially big push in the public sector for efficiency in the IT infrastructure. What governments are doing - for example, the SOE (Standard ICT Operating Environment) project in Singapore and various other IT projects in Malaysia and Vietnam - is ahead of the private sector. Governments are already moving forward by building private clouds.
In the private sector, many SMBs are leading the charge in public cloud adoption as they become increasingly dependent on IT. The lowest entry point for any segment of the market to start on the journey towards adopting a "private cloud" is the consolidation of their IT infrastructure, such as storage, computers (servers) and networks (both FC and IP). These form the very foundations required to build the next stages, (light and then production virtualisation), which move the organisation along the virtualisation path and ultimately to a "private cloud" to suit their organisation.
In the telco space, they will face the same virtualisation journey as other enterprises, but with a significant difference. Not only do the telcos have to build infrastructures to take their internal IT organisations towards "private clouds" nimbly to give them a competitive edge, they must also address the "hosting service provider" market.
To provide further services and value to their clients, telcos will be focusing on building outward-facing virtualisation technologies to offload some of the workload on o the telcos' infrastructure either in an ad hoc, short or long-term fashion.
In the storage space, flash memory, data de-duplication, and storage tiering will continue to be in demand because of the high cost savings they offer. According to an IDC report, the Digital Universe is anticipated to grow five-fold from 2008 while total IT spending worldwide will only grow by a factor of 1.2. So, as companies seek to manage information growth, budgets that were previously allocated for storage and server purchases are now being reassigned to establish virtualised and cloud-based infrastructures.
Vincent Goh, managing director, Southeast Asia, RSA (The Security Division of EMC) pointed out that virtualisation is being adopted widely and swiftly by IT organisations worldwide and enthusiasm for cloud computing has as much to do with economics as technology.
Growth in the number of applications and the volume of data that must be managed have made data centers a major corporate expense. Public cloud computing is therefore a way to dramatically save costs in managing information in the enterprise.
At the same time, enterprises are using the same concepts and technologies to build private clouds to capitalise on centralised, commoditised IT services that meet their security needs. According to IDG research commissioned by RSA in April 2009, it was found that 73 percent of top IT security decision-makers surveyed across the globe reported increased usage of virtualisation technology, personal consumer mobile devices and social networking platforms at their companies. Also, just under one-third (31 percent) of the respondents' companies are already leveraging the cloud, while 16 percent have plans to migrate applications and processes in the following 12 months. Among these respondents, a significant two-thirds (66 percent) do not yet have a security strategy in place.
Goh expects remarkable changes in this area in 2010; as companies work towards both public and private clouds (as well as a combination of both, termed 'hybrid clouds') deployments, they will be conscious of following core security principles to assure users and customers of a secure cloud computing infrastructure. Organisations cannot and will not ignore the importance of doing so.
Goh believes that more and more organisations will take a slow and steady approach in leveraging cloud computing and virtualisation in 2010.
Less critical applications will be migrated to the cloud, and more sensitive company information will continue to reside in local servers.
Authentication will also be an imperative measure to ensure that information in the cloud or a virtualised environment does not land in the hands of non-authorised users or fraudsters.
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