Cisco highlights 2014’s disruptive trends in technology

DigitalSENSE Business News:

The first-ever Technology Radar study by Cisco made available to DigitalSENSE Business News, on Wednesday, highlighted some key trends set to redefine businesses and life across the continent of Africa as 2014 gains momentum, just as growth of connected ‘things’ will reach $212 billion

The study, DigitalSENSE Business News gathered was based on intelligence assembled by over 70 global technology ‘scouts,’ focusing on independent of current product roadmaps or business unit priorities.

As disclosed by Head, Architectures and Enterprise, Cisco Emerging Markets, Mr. Den Sullivan, the key trends set to make a mark in 2014 include Context Aware Computing, Machine-to-Machine Connections, Browser Based Video & Collaboration, Video Mega Trends, Building the Next Internet with new Architectures, Security and Mobile Device Management.

Also, he said that driving all of these is the Internet of Everything (IoE) – the interconnections of people, processes, data, and things – which Cisco believes represents a $19 trillion opportunity, globally, over the next decade ($14.4 trillion in the private sector and $4.6 trillion in the public sector). By 2020, Cisco reports that the growth of connected “things” will reach 212 billion.

“IT organizations across the Africa need to prepare for the Internet of Everything (IoE), and what we are now seeing is the emergence of an Application Economy where the focus will no longer be simply on the hardware, but also on supporting a larger number of applications on all connected devices,” said Den Sullivan, Head of Architectures and Enterprise, Cisco Emerging Markets.

“Big changes now need to take place to make sense of exponentially increasing and varied types of data coming in from devices ranging from Smartphone applications to information generated a city’s infrastructure,” he said.

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Pix: L-R; Mr. Bola Adegbonmire, Unified Collaboration Architectural Play Team Africa, Cisco; Den Sullivan

Head of Architectures and Enterprise, Emerging Markets, Cisco and Mr. Kunle Oloruntimehin, Manager, Systems Engineering Sales, Cisco at the Cisco Tech Radar Media Roundtable which held at Cisco’s Office, VI, Lagos.