Dell, Gartner unveil top predictions for data center technologies

MANILA, Philippines - The data center is evolving and with cloud computing emerging as key driver for new deployments, most organizations are looking to revamp their IT architectures.

"Early adopters will begin deployments of flattened networks, focusing on optimizing around virtualization and managing from the edge of the network, using either proprietary vendor methods or early standards like TRILL and Openflow," it added.

Software as a Service is as well projected to grow from nine percent of total enterprise applications software spending in 2009 to 14 percent in 2014. SaaS enterprise application earnings will as well more than double while this timeframe, or 15.3 percent of compound annual growth rate between 2009 and 2014.