4 virtualization trends in 2019

According to MarketsandMarket, the virtualization market will grow over the next 5 years. As the main drivers of the market, experts point out the demand for specialized software and infrastructure for working with large amounts of data.

Serverless technologies will evolve

Serverless technologies allow developers to abstract from infrastructure management and focus on developing and deploying applications. This is possible thanks to automation: the provider company takes control of the virtual infrastructure that is needed to run and scale applications. In this case, you need to pay only for the time and resources that are used here and now. Of course, we don’t yet have to talk about mass use of technology in 2018, but the mentioned analytical data show that this market will develop steadily over the next 4–5 years.

The popularity of NoSQL will grow

Working with Big Data involves more than analyzing huge amounts of information. It also includes the processing of data that is regularly updated and comes from various sources. To solve these problems, more and more NoSQL databases are used. NoSQL is a relatively new technology, because for some time it experienced certain difficulties with implementation and encountered technical errors. For example, in 2015, 40 thousand NoSQL MongoDB databases were unprotected from attacks; hackers only needed to scan TCP ports to find vulnerable databases.

Object storage will grow in popularity

Object storage is becoming increasingly popular on the market. Files in such storage are accompanied by metadata that allow processing these files as application objects: documents, projects, photos, etc. high reliability of storage.

Multi-cloud will combine workloads

According to IDC forecast, in 2018, 85% of companies will switch to multi-cloud architecture. In addition to the need to meet the individual needs of organizations, the reason for the growing interest in multi-cloud is the growing popularity of data protection and automation - so they say in Juniper. Therefore, security has become one of the main strategic directions for Juniper's development in 2017–2018, and the company has been working on automation for many years.