Software-defined entities riding the new wave

INFORMATION technology (IT) is undergoing a paradigm shift and the new wave of companies that will emerge as winners across the entire industry spectrum would comprise those that have reinvented themselves into software-defined enterprises, says Eric Goh, EMC Singapore's managing director. Speaking to BizIT, Mr Goh noted that four powerful trends are at play: mobile, cloud computing, Big Data and social networking. "Collectively, these four trends comprise what research firm IDC calls the 'third platform' of IT (the first being mainframe, and the second being PC client/server) and critical to its success will be an underlying foundation of security, privacy and trust.

"The future promises to be both extremely disruptive and rich in opportunity for companies, IT professionals and IT vendors alike, creating new sets of winners across a rapidly evolving industry," Mr Goh said.

Software-defined enterprises will leverage software and build new applications that harness new sources of data to redefine their strategy and drive structural changes to their advantage, he added.