TALKING BUSINESS
10 TRENDS THAT WILL
IMPACT OPEN SOURCE
TECHNOLOGY
Open source has become an integral piece of every developer’s
arsenal. The power of the community, the wisdom of many,
and the ability to hook into various systems and solutions make
open source incredibly powerful, writes Mohammed Al-Moneer,
Regional Director, MENA, A10 Networks.
A
s 2017 gathers steam, we
at A10 Networks decided to
identify 10 trends that will
impact open source this year:
1
The ADC space embraces
open source. At A10, we’ve been
ambassadors of open-source solutions.
And in 2017, that will increase. ADC
vendors will provide better and tighter
integration packages for various open
source projects, especially surrounding
ADC-generated telemetry.
2
More eyes find
vulnerabilities in open-
source projects. Bad guys love
them and companies hate them…
Many companies leverage open-source
technologies to help build enterprise-
class and cloud-ready solutions.
However, with open-source vulnerabilities
making headline impacting news, open-
source projects are not as trust worthy
as they have historically been perceived.
Technology vendors, as they push to
gain mind share as security companies,
will start to identify vulnerabilities in
open source code more often. This
will hopefully lead to patches being
produced sooner.
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Data becomes more
actionable as business
intelligence rises. Collecting
mountains of data is great. But it’s what
you do with that data and what you
learn from it that matters. We’ve been
so caught up in collecting the data, that
we’re not using the data we collect.
In 2017, we’ll get more value out of
the data we collect through increased
adoption of analytics and machine
learning to identify patterns that are
actionable. This will fuel an increase
in business intelligence, and give
organisations a competitive advantage.
Next year will be the year of information
superiority as businesses use data as a
key differentiator.
4
Containers become more
common. For the past two or three
years, containers have been more of an
edge fad than a mass-adopted solution.
That changes this year.
In 2017, businesses will focus on
rightsizing their resources. Containers give
businesses the ability to leverage highly
portable assets or resources, and make
the move into microservices much easier,
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