The document outlines CA Technologies' top 5 IT predictions for 2013. The predictions are: 1) Big data projects will begin showing returns on investment and increasing demand for data management. 2) Enterprises will increasingly adopt public clouds as service providers expand offerings. 3) Identity management will become more important as the new perimeter with the rise of cloud services. 4) Sensing technologies in mobile devices will be used more for applications like disaster management and smart grids. 5) Companies will primarily build applications for mobile/social platforms rather than traditional platforms.

1. CA Technologies
Top 5 IT Predictions
for 2013
CA Technologies
December 2012

2. PREDICTION: Big Data Grows Up
 Big Data isn’t just big, it’s useful
2013 will be the year  Emergence of Big Data Administrators
that Big Data projects  Big Data decision risk is much lower
begin to show and the insights provided will
increase IT’s leadership on innovation
demonstrable ROI
OPPORTUNITIES
 enabling better focus on $271 million – Average savings enterprises could realize
by making data more accessible thanks to better asset
delivering business value utilization.
20% – Increased revenues realized by bridging sales and
 dramatically increasing service data for a major European carrier.
$2 million – Annual revenue benefit of correcting
demand for management inaccurate billing addresses for a major communications
technology company.
and security $2 billion – Annual improvement in median total revenue
due to increased employee productivity realized by increasing
data usability by just 10%.
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3. PREDICTION: Enterprises Will Adopt Public Clouds
Cloud
 Adoption will be spurred by the expansion of
offerings from Service Providers who have Virtual
Internet
already earned their trust Distributed
Mainframe
 As Service Providers franchise their business
models and technologies, cloud services will
surge outside the US
 Cloud will become the norm 53% CIOs say cloud computing has enabled
them to spend more time on business
strategy and innovation
– the buzz of “the cloud” will dim as people
realize it’s just the way business is done 54% CIOs say cloud computing is technology
shifting
their focus from supporting
to provisioning business services
 Externally hosted private cloud adoption will
also increase in the next couple of years 71% of CIOs who have adopted clouda viable
computing see their position as
path to a COO or CEO position
Source: CA Technologies Research, The Future Role of the CIO, Dec 2011
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4. PREDICTION: Identity is the New Perimeter
Security professionals today find themselves in a
Increase in borderless war on multiple fronts and one common ally
cloud services – Identity.
is erasing We anticipate:
traditional IT  emphasis on reducing risk at the authentication point
perimeters  advanced authentication models to expand
 more risk-based authentication
Strongly  more intelligent methods of authentication
authenticated  more content-driven security
identity is the NEW CHALLENGES
NEW perimeter! Of the top 5 most important issues for companies migrating to the cloud, the
#1 issue was IDENTITY & ACCESS MGMT
(50% of respondents)
Ponemon Institute, “Security of Cloud Computing Provider study”. April, 2011
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5. PREDICTION: The Seventh Sense
 Increased use of sensing technologies in mobile devices
– to manage growing ‘Internet of Things’
 Application will span disaster
management, healthcare, transportation networks, smart
grids, utility computing & more…
 Technologies will drive additional demand for IT to
manage, store, analyze and secure data
There will be increased exploitation of sensing
technologies available in most modern mobile devices
as the ‘Internet of Things’ takes hold…
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6. PREDICTION: Mobile/Social First in the Enterprise
Companies will start to build applications not just with mobile/social
platforms in mind, but PRIMARILY for mobile/ social platforms…
… traditional platforms will be secondary or not supported at all.
 Consumerization will accelerate Global Access: Usage & Demographics
 5.7B phones worldwide – 77% of worlds population
 User experience will be key  Over 1/2B accessed the mobile web daily
 300,000K apps in 2 years, downloaded 10.9B times
 98% under 50 own a phone, 78% over 60 are now mobile
 Management of mobile/social IT will
Commerce Usage and Growth
focus on managing and securing the  1Billion will access Financial Services via phone by 2015
 50% of the worlds subscribers paying by mobile by 2014
mobile applications and mobile data  Mobile commerce 9B – 2011 and $119B by 2015
 M-ticketing by 1- 10 mobile subscribers by 2014
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7. RUNNER UP: The Rise of DevOps is Imminent
 We see DevOps driving the rise of
Intelligent computing in experience-led design
every piece of equipment
– CIO will be less worried about managing
in the world today is devices and more concerned with
driving the world towards managing apps.
environments that are – As services are moved to the
becoming so complex cloud, consumers will be less interested in
monitoring infrastructure themselves.
that operations needs to
be taken into  DevOps will necessitate the
consideration before the reconstitution of traditional
first line of code is frameworks
written. In this reality, cloud, mobility, and DevOps
are becoming one movement…
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8. Top 5 IT Predictions for 2013
1 Big Data Grows Up
2 Enterprises Adopt Public Cloud
3 Identity is the New Perimeter
4 The Seventh Sense
5 Mobile/Social FIRST in the Enterprise
and ... Imminent Rise of DevOps
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