Madrid, 16 September, 2013
Global Technology Outlook
Emerging Technologies and IT Trends
Elisa Martín Garijo
IBM Distinguish Engineer and CTO for IBM
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¿What is Global Technology Outlook (GTO) ?
The GTO identifies significant technology trends and
identifies high-impact disruptive technologies leading to
game-changing products and services over a 3-10 year
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horizon
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What are the IBM capabilities to build a GTO?
Dublin
 Smarter Cities
China
Zurich
Almaden
 Big Data &
Analytics
 Storage
 Nanotech
Healthcare
 Science
 Nanotech
Semiconductors
Materials
Systems
Software &
Services
Big Data &
Analytics
Watson
Austin
 Semiconductors
 Processors
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Haifa
 Natural Resources
 Smarter Devices
 Human Systems/Events
Tokyo
India
 Big Data &
Analytics
 HW & SW
Quality
 Cloud, Mobile
Brazil
 Internet of Things
 Smarter Cities
 Services
 Mobile
Communications
 Industry
Solutions
 Accessibility
Africa
 Next Generation Public Sector
 Water & Transportation
 Human Capacity Development
Australia
 Natural Resources
 Disaster Management
 Healthcare & Life Sciences
IBM Research Labs
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The 4 Mega Trends in new technology wave
Growing Scale / Lower Barrier of Entry
Technology Drivers
Increasing Complexity / Yet More
Consumable
Social – Mobile – Cloud
– Big Data / Analytics
Fast Pace
Contextual Overload
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GTO 2013 Topics
The Rapidly Evolving
Infrastructure
The Future of Big Data
and Analytics
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Mobile
First
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Scalable
Services
Ecosystems
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Contextual
Enterprise
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Software
Defined
Environments
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Personalized
Education
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Multimedia and
Visual Analytics
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Mobile First
Explosive growth of Mobile and Mobile First design
patterns are driving new application structures
Continuous Client Experience
 Explosive growth of mobile is forcing companies
to rethink their business models
 New consumption and interaction models
 Real-time updates across multiple persistently
connected and heterogeneous devices per user
 Reimagining businesses
 Secure enterprise
services
 Radically new platforms
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Scalable
Services
Ecosystems
represent a disruptive new agile paradigm for
composing business solutions and building business
relationships, based on programmable API (Application
Programming Interface) invocations
Engagement Services
 New services that offer social and collaboration,
personalization, contextualization
 New forms of orchestration that transcend both
the client and server side
 Data services provide pervasiveness across
applications and devices
 Delivered through Software-as-a-Service
 API based relationships
 Service fabric and
patterns
 New business models
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Software
Defined
Environments
In Software Defined Environments, cloud infrastructure is
becoming programmable to meet efficiency and resiliency
requirements and be purpose-fit for workloads
Today’s workloads
Automate your workloads
Cloud
Mobile
Social
Optimize your resources
Compute
• Simplified operations in a
secure environment
• Responsive & enabled
by open standards
Storage
Simplified
management
Analytics
Network
• Adaptive infrastructure to
support changing workloads
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Workload definition
Workload optimization
Open industry APIs
Resource abstraction & optimization
Scalable Delivery Infrastructure
 Programmable infrastructure via
Open APIs encourages broad ecosystem
of solutions providers
Compute
Storage
Simplified
management
Software
Defined
Environments
Network
Simplified – Responsive – Adaptive
 Workloads dynamically assigned
resources based on app characteristics
& best available resources
 Analytics-based compliance checking reduces
security exposure & business risk
 Continuous optimization to instantly address
infrastructure issues & improve response to
business needs
 Proactive management of IT resources
to improve efficiency & control costs
of service delivery
 Unified Control Plan
 Heterogeneous
resources
 Top-down optimization
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Software
Defined
Environments
Software Defined Environments are
workload-aware, leveraging best
practices with patterns of expertise
Business opportunity: new “ad-fraud detection” Hadoop application that uses
real-time correlation of transaction data with ad click log data
Rapid
prototype
Sandbox
Scaled-out
service
Limited live
Next Feature
SILVER
BRONZE
VM
Server
GOLD
5 node cluster
Rack
PLATINUM
20 node cluster
Pure
Hadoop
data node
Hadoop
name node
Hadoop
job tracker
Hadoop
data node
Hadoop
name node
Hadoop
job tracker
Hadoop
data node
Hadoop
name node
Hadoop
job tracker
Hadoop
data node
Hadoop
name node
Hadoop
job tracker
Availability cluster
Intel VM
Intel VM
Intel VM
Intel VM
Power VM
Intel VM
Power VM
Local disk
Local disk
Local disk
Local disk
SSD
Local disk
SSD
OS network
10 gig network
Hypervisor network
RDMA network
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Multimedia and
Visual
Analytics
 Driving Big Data / Analytics
 Massive scale computing
 Visual interactive
interfaces
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Contextual
Enterprise
Fusion of data and
processes
Enterprise transformation
Contextual computing
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Personalized
Education
Massive supply gap
Predictive and prescriptive
analytics focused on
outcomes
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