John Hanrahan (1/6/2014)
One area of movement will be the accelerated movement to SSDs. They are dropping in cost rapidly and I think we'll start seeing them in more and more systems from SANs to consumer laptops. I also think that on line learning will continue to change the face of education. It's becoming easy to take and get credit for on line classes now. Just check out Coursera for tons of examples.Finally I think this will be a watershed year for the Cloud/Security. I think there will be some pull back from the cloud hype as business/people find out their data was copied/stolen from them without them ever knowing. Some cloud provider employee will leak that someone copied x number of systems from <provider>. The <provider> will have kept it secret. BIG FALLOUT ala Target. (This is my John Dvorak prediction). 🙂
J
On SSDs, everyone needs to keep in mind that there are severe limits on how long SSDs can be written to. With RAID, you can accomodate the risks, but you need to be aware of them.
As far as security goes, I doubt any real progress will be made. SANS had an article about how senators are pushing to go to embedded chips in CCs, now that the Target breach has come up. Really? How is using a chip going to prevent someone from HACKING INTO THEIR DATABASE!!! We really elect these people?
Dave