{"id":68725,"date":"2010-11-22T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/customerthink.com\/2011_it_prediction_4_ecosystem_rules\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T13:20:00","slug":"2011_it_prediction_4_ecosystem_rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/2011_it_prediction_4_ecosystem_rules\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 IT Prediction #4: Ecosystem Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With predictions <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rpath.com\/wpmu\/closing-the-gap\/2010\/11\/17\/2011-it-prediction-1-private-cloud-proliferates\/\">#1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rpath.com\/wpmu\/closing-the-gap\/2010\/11\/18\/2011-it-prediction-2-public-cloud-thrives\/\">#2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rpath.com\/wpmu\/closing-the-gap\/2010\/11\/19\/2011-it-prediction-3-hybrid-cloud-emerges\/\">#3<\/a> down, prediction #4 is up:<\/p>\n<p>Ecosystem rules &#x2013; And speaking of leverage &#x2026; fear of leverage lost through expanding hegemony of virtualization and cloud infrastructure providers (read: VMware) will conspire with frustration over the pace of innovation&#x2014;giving rise to a new class of smaller, independent providers that become important vendors in their own rights. Best of breed tools will become integrated ecosystem-led solutions that represent a foundation for making this transformation to delivering IT as a service.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, I&#x2019;ll post the penultimate prediction. In the meantime, what do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With predictions #1, #2, and #3 down, prediction #4 is up: Ecosystem rules &#x2013; And speaking of leverage &#x2026; fear of leverage lost through expanding hegemony of virtualization and cloud infrastructure providers (read: VMware) will conspire with frustration over the pace of innovation&#x2014;giving rise to a new class of smaller, independent providers that become important [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":6843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128,117],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/customerthink.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}