Sonian, the trusted caretaker for all digital content, offers 9 cloud computing, email archiving, data retention and IT predictions for 2010. These predictions show that businesses will be looking to cloud-powered SaaS to help solve IT problems related to email archiving, information governance, compliance and e-discovery.

1. 9 IT Predictions
for “20-ten”
Finalist: Storage Product of the Year

2. 1. Cloud Goes Mainstream
• Cloud computing becomes an accepted
platform to solve enterprise IT compute
needs.
• Cloud will be a virtual extension to on-
premises data centers.
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3. 2. Tier 3 Data to Cloud
• Archival “tier 3” data will move to cloud-
based storage.
• Cloud offers a better ROI:
• More reliable & easier to search.
• Less Expensive TCO.
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4. 3. Inbox Productivity
• Information overload
(via the inbox) will
need simple effective
solutions.
• Many data streams
converge to few.
• People will seek
relief.
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5. 4. Tape to Cloud
• Primary backup remains disk to disk.
• Secondary backup evolves:
• from: disk -> tape
• to: disk -> cloud
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6. 5. “Hybrid IT”
IT
• Mid-sized companies will adopt a “hybrid
IT” approach to data center designs.
• Some services stay on-premises and
some run better in the cloud.
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7. 6. Data Visualizations
• Large data sets require visualization
tools.
• Cloud-powered analysis tools will “paint a
picture” that is easy to understand.
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8. 7. Data Analytics
• Big data sets will need new analysis
modules for advanced data mining.
• Businesses will be looking for “Voice of
employee” & “Voice of customer”
identification technologies.
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9. 8. Connect Data Silos
• Enterprise data lives in too many silos
today.
• Businesses want to analyze and
understand their data “across artificial
technical boundaries.”
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10. 9. IT Needs to Save Money
• ROI and TCO will
be scrutinized more.
• Cloud-powered SaaS
is a way to “do more
with less.”
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11. Bonus: It’s all About Search
• We need to keep mostly all
the digital content we create
in a work setting.
• 10Gb per employee a year
and growing.
• Easy, intuitive search is the
only way to manage all this
information.
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12. About Sonian
• Sonian brings Enterprise IT to the “cloud...”
• Web service platform solves email archiving and
eDiscovery problem for all businesses.
• First to deploy an IT services platform based on
cloud compute infrastructure.
• Software & technology stack uses on-demand
cloud CPU and reliable cloud storage.
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