Top Tech Leaders Share 2025 Video Predictions | VMblog Series Episode 4

As we step into 2025, leading technology executives from DataStrike, Mezmo, Nerdio, NetSPI, and Scality share their expert #predictions in this exclusive VMblog predictions series on the evolving tech landscape. From AI integration to cybersecurity challenges, here's what industry leaders expect to shape the year ahead.

AI Integration and Security
DataStrike's SVP of Service Delivery, Carlo Finotti, emphasizes two key areas: cybersecurity and predictive analytics. With enterprises carefully navigating AI adoption, there's a growing focus on protecting intellectual property and securing AI implementations. The integration of AI assistants across operating systems, mobile devices, and social platforms is becoming increasingly prevalent, with examples like Windows Copilot and Google's Android AI initiatives leading the way.

Data Management and Governance
Mezmo's CMO, Ajay Khanna, highlights the continuing surge in data volume, with organizations experiencing 25-40% year-over-year growth in telemetry data. As AI programs fuel this growth, Khanna stresses the importance of data governance, particularly for logs, metrics, and traces. He recommends organizations prioritize understanding their data sources, implement proper access controls, and establish mechanisms to separate signal from noise for maximum value extraction.

Desktop Virtualization Trends
Amol Dalvi, VP of Product and Engineering at Nerdio, predicts increased AI integration in Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) and VDI management, enabling IT admins to interact with AI agents for virtual desktop management. He also foresees Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) technology stabilizing and growing in adoption, alongside a revival of on-premises VDI solutions through Azure Stack HCI (Azure Local) for organizations with specific regulatory or bandwidth requirements.

Cybersecurity Evolution
NetSPI's Field CISO, Nabil Hannan, outlines three major security trends: solution consolidation through platformization, evolving CISO accountability with security becoming a shared business responsibility, and the transformation of threat detection through agentic AI. While autonomous agents will enhance security monitoring and response, Hannan warns about the need for robust defenses against adversarial AI.

Object Storage and AI Infrastructure
Paul Speciale, CMO at Scality, predicts object storage becoming the de facto standard for high-performance AI applications, particularly in model training and fine-tuning. This trend is driven by object storage's prevalence in AI data lakes, widespread adoption of the Amazon S3 API, and the emergence of high-performance all-flash solutions. Speciale also emphasizes the evolution of ransomware protection beyond traditional immutability measures to combat sophisticated data exfiltration attacks. Read more of his predictions here: https://vmblog.com/archive/2024/12/03/scality-2025-predictions-what-role-will-storage-play-in-supporting-ai-applications-and-your-cyber-resilience-posture-in-2025-a-big-one.aspx

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