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As anyone with a vested interest in cloud computing will know, the perception of the data centre has evolved considerably, from isolated resource centres to more connected pools, helping maximise IT efficiency. Not surprisingly, with the potential available, the numbers are growing. 60% of server workloads are set to be virtualised by 2014, compared to only 12% in 2008, with total investment in data centre infrastructure growing 5% on average year on year.

The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market is growing up. Vendors are endeavoring not only to help enterprises define, configure, and deploy increasingly complex applications, but also to abstract these applications from the underlying IaaS infrastructure. It is shifting from a bottom-up infrastructure-centric view to a top-down application-centric view.

To capitalise on Parallels' success story Cisco, the global networking giant, of recent has made an equity investment of $11 million to the desktop virtualisation firm. According to Hilton Romanski, VP corporate business development Cisco: "Cisco is continuing its commitment to technology development and innovation through strategic investments".

Because (or in spite) of the hype, sentiment about Big Data vendors was generally bullish in 2012. The attention spilled over from IT to the business media. These were among the findings reported by DataSift, which conducted a retrospective analysis of vendor mentions on Twitter during 2012 for Ovum.

The phenomenon that is 'big data' is already having a huge impact on your organisation - only you might not have noticed it yet. The evolution of the Internet and the influence of mobile devices, wireless networking, sensors and social networks have changed operations and how businesses compete. But all these tech trends are bit players compared with big data.

Is public cloud mature enough for enterprise adoption? Should public cloud be a part of every business IT strategy? How big a barrier are legacy applications and hardware to public cloud adoption?

With 2013 just around the corner, it’s not surprising to see many companies rolling out their 2013 tech predictions – and it’s even less of a surprise that cloud computing features heavily.

VMware has been the force behind many of the server infrastructure virtualisation transformations that have taken place in the data centre over the last decade.