L&L Ask the vCIOs - January 2016 - IT trends and emerging technologies

During this Ask the vCIOs learning series session, Chris Sousa, Dataprise's Vice President of Enterprise Design, provides relevant insight into IT trends and technologies. He reviews technologies and innovations that are making waves in the IT space, and that have the potential to completely disrupt the industry. This recorded session is very useful for small and mid-size business owners and/or IT leaders.

Objectives

Viewers will learn which 2016 IT trends they should be mindful of, emerging technologies and how they affect business, and how to determine which technologies are best for their unique organization.

Session Content

How 2016 IT trends will affect organizations
Digital business
Device mesh / BYOD
Information of everything and how to make information meaningful
Software defined everything
Adaptive and advanced security
3D printing
User experience

Reference Material

Dataprise - Prepare and Protect with Adaptive Security Architecture
Dataprise - The Next Level of Virtualization: Why you should keep an eye on SDDC
Gartner - Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016
Deloit/Wall Street Journal - Software-Defined Everything Becoming a Reality
Market Watch - Tech trends that will dominate 2016

Chris Sousa, Vice President of Enterprise Design at Dataprise

Chris Sousa joined the Dataprise team in 2008 as the head of our Cloud Services division. As our Vice President of Enterprise Design, Chris is now responsible for technical solution design, pricing, and technical support for our business capture teams. He also works on researching cutting-edge technologies and developing new products and services to add to the Dataprise service portfolio.

Chris has over a decade of experience working at Managed Service Providers including two MSPs in metro Atlanta serving in various technical and managerial roles. He studied Computer Engineering at Southern Polytechnic State University, and holds numerous technical certifications including Certified Novell Administrator, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and VMware Certified Professional.