The companies have a desperate need to acquire skills in areas that refer to what is commonly defined in terms simplifying it, digitizing, a phenomenon that implies a transformation of the business and, consequently, the manner in which IT organizations are called upon to answer these changes.

The macro dimensions exercising attraction in terms of investment and expertise are mobile and cloud, elements that condition the modes of delivery and use of applications. The development of solutions is therefore linked to the ability to deal with this scenario, characterized by a polarization of issues such as analyzing big data and app development on next generation client, smartphone and tablet, equipped with operating systems that reference platforms and IoS Android.

Cloud and mobilebecomes the first claim most accredited by the most important players in the market and is also the approach that qualifies most of the processing actions undertaken by companies. Above all dominates a constant, that of security, discipline on which companies will inevitably gain more qualified skills, since safety is distinguished by being embedded element in the corporate DNA.

The affirmation of the app economy and brings with it the need to acquire new skills in terms of development methodologies, which need to be agile as the software cycle requires rapid development and is subject to frequent updates and releases. Here, then, the ever increasing need to deploy the development team who adhere to this emerging new government mode of software production processes.

And if on one hand the cloud allows you to capture on the fly applications ready to use logic as a service, is also true that all these elements of innovation result in the rethinking and adjustment of the data center infrastructure that will be increasingly conditioned by optimization software defined the different layers, computing, storage and networking.

On that latter point, systems engineering resources to the open source architectures will become the paramount time. More than they are today. A change and transformation in the enterprise will require a strong ability to integrate size on premise and off premise.

What kind of macro effects will produce the statement of the trends described above? Definitely a different balance of IT resources. Gartner, for example, estimates that 20120 only 20% of the workload will be on premise. By the IOC it becomes a priority to be able to govern a hybrid model that will see the coexistence of multiple providers and technology sourcing different from what has so far characterized.

An equally important phenomenon, which affect significantly the future, in the short and medium term, will be the affirmation of IT solutions in emerging application areas, for example driven by the Internet of Things. Most analysts and observers agree that one of the market dynamics that affect most in the evolution of technology is, in fact, directly attributable to the composite IoT universe. Forecasts to five years speak of 20 billion items in 2020 will be connected to the internet. Beyond the numbers it is clear that today, 2016, we are at the big bang IoT, and soon this spark will cause an expansion of an ecosystem from the most unpredictable developments. Smart Car, Smart Home, Smart City, Smart Industry, are the areas where investments will focus gradually. The truth is that the IoT can be associated with a variety of environments and is potentially movable in the most diverse markets.