#2 Software-defined Storage

Data growth continues unabated. From an IT perspective, one of the main issues is not awareness of the issue, but prioritization of the issues. Software-defined storage (SDS) is the logical next step of the software defined data center. By employing SDS, organizations are able to separate and abstract storage elements, as well as combine storage elements and capabilities providing storage solutions/services. They also have the potential to enable heterogeneous storage resources to create virtual pools of resources based on application requirements rather than the physical storage characteristics.

#3 Hybrid Cloud Services

Unlike private, public or community cloud services, hybrid cloud services horizontally "span" two complete implementations. A single service request could be deployed in either implementation, or moved from one to the other, or can horizontally grow between the two implementations (also called cloudbursting or overdrafting). The primary benefit is flexibility of deployment, managed security and elasticity. This is contrasted from a cloud service that relies completely on another cloud service in a supply chain - in which the service is incomplete without the connection between the multiple implementations.

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