Intelligent CIO Europe Issue13 | Page 43

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// directly to the home markets of the biggest global players by expanding to the US. And whatever the uncertainties around Brexit, the domestic cloud and hosting markets will continue to show strong levels of innovation and those providers who can excel at customer service will be in the best position to succeed.” Alan Conboy, Office of the CTO at Scale Computing, echoed the hybrid cloud trend: “Next year will be a defining year for edge www.intelligentcio.com FEATURE: 2019 TECHNOLOGY FORECAST 45% OF ALL DATA CREATED BY IOT DEVICES WILL BE STORED, PROCESSED, ANALYSED AND ACTED UPON CLOSE TO OR AT THE EDGE OF A NETWORK BY 2020. INTELLIGENTCIO 43