Trends 2018 Predictions Technology Part 2
RFG Perspective: Mobility and the digital economy proved to be an overarching theme in 2017
and will prove somehow to be even more ingrained in the all facets of enterprise business in
2018. While desktops are still the on-site work engine, they are no longer the user device of
preference for business or personal use.
Trends – 2018 Predictions – Technology – Part 1
RFG Perspective: Unlike the past few years, there will be global economic and geopolitical
tailwinds in 2018, which will enable more businesses to increase their IT budgets. Additionally, the
disintermediation impacts of the digital economy will disrupt more businesses – and whole
industries – which must be addressed by corporate executives before their firms' revenues are
usurped by new or transformed competitors.
Trends – 2018 Predictions – Procurement
RFG Perspective: Unlike the past few years, there will be global economic and geopolitical
tailwinds in 2018, which will enable more businesses to increase their IT budgets. The passage of
the 2018 Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 will boost corporate spending, especially for capital
expenditures.
Trends – 2018 Predictions – People & Process
RFG Perspective: Unlike the previous few years, there will be global economic and geopolitical tailwinds in 2018, which will enable more businesses to increase their IT budgets. Additionally, the disintermediation impacts of the digital economy are disrupting businesses – and whole industries – that must be addressed by corporate executives before their firms' revenues are usurped by new or transformed competitors. More business executives recognize the need for cloud computing and collaboration and strategic planning with IT executives.
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Rack-Mounted Mainframes
RFG Perspective: A major breakthrough: mainframes redesigned for the 21 st century – compacted to be
rack-mounted and standardized for data center aisles while still leaving rack space for other components.
This modernization should make the new, highly secure, compact low-end z14 ZR1 and LinuxONE
Rockhopper II attractive to enterprise executives as they build out their next generation data centers,
including their private cloud infrastructures. IT executives should determine if these new rack-mounted
mainframes are the least risk, least cost compute platforms for certain workloads from both the financial
and technical perspectives.
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