So as we say good bye to 2014, we thought we'd share our predictions for what will be big in the world of technology in 2015. There isn't really anything new and breath-taking here, but some of the technologies will be become more relevant in 2015 with adoption rates increasing, technologies refined and marketing getting their heads round it all and convincing businesses and the consumer that they want it.

1. Video Adoption will Grow - with the new standards in video decoding, ever falling bandwidth and broadband pricing, lower price points from vendors and the rise of video adoption across every social app in existence, video is now the "expected" means of communication. From boardroom, to meeting room, to desk and to pocket, business users everywhere are expecting high quality video communication. 
   
   
2. Continued Adoption of Cloud and Hybrid Cloud. Businesses will continue to move IT services to third-party cloud service providers. Security will continue to be a cause for concern, especially as the media’s breach article frenzy continues. Even so, the ability to integrate with existing on-premise and newer cloud services will rise to be two very practical concerns for enterprise cloud adoption. From an IT management point of view, businesses will need to continue to seek out people with the ability to manage suppliers and service delivery. Large enterprises were never going to move everything from their data center to the cloud.  The hybrid cloud, defined by global analyst firm Gartner as “a combination of private, public, and community cloud services,” will continue to rise in popularity during 2015 as businesses look to get the best from both private and public cloud.
   Nonetheless, IT will continue to head further into the cloud in 2015.
   
   
3. Bring Your Own Everything. This is where IT finally wake up to see that Shadow IT, BYOD, or BYO-anything is not being driven by consumer IT and cloud service providers but actually bythe fact that most businesses corporate IT are not able to meet user expectations across usability, cost, service, and agility. The 10 years or so of the "Consumerisation of IT" talk, with a focus on consumer gadgets, has just been a red herring – hiding the true root cause of customer discontent with existing IT supply. IT  will need to change; and change quickly.
   
   
4. The increased focus on costs will drive a focus on assets. IT asset management has long been a poor relation to corporate IT service management activities and investment. In some ways, the lack of business scrutiny as to why IT costs so much, has allowed corporate IT organizations to be lackadaisical in their asset management. But those days have gone, or are quickly coming to an end, with 2015 finally seeing corporate IT organizations looking to physical and software assets as ways of reducing and optimizing costs.
   
   
5. The need to manage more complex IT supplier environments. This need will continue to grow as enterprises exit outsourcing deals that have failed to deliver against expectations of service improvement, cost savings, and innovation. In 2015 the need for service integration capabilities, often called service integration and management (SIAM) or multisourcing services integration (MSI), will come forth - this will happen not only for larger organisations replacing previously outsourced scenarios with multiple suppliers but also smaller ones needing to manage a portfolio of third-party, often cloud service, providers.
   
   
6. Continued mobile pervasiveness. Continued improvements in anytime, anywhere, any device access to data and services will continue to drive the need for better mobile apps and experiences, and the use of personal devices for work purposes. Not only will this dictate the need for better service and app design and delivery, and more intelligent approaches to BYOD, but also the need to consider the security implications of mobility such as data segregation issues – with personal and business data and applications isolated from each other on the same device.
   
   
7. Wearables and the quantified worker. The Apple iWatch launches, Microsoft  finally get stock of it's "Band" device and no doubt we will start to see  greater potential business use cases focus on wearable computing. While employees might like the idea of a new gadget giving them access to alerts and short messages related to email, social media, schedules, travel plans, or the weather, the ability of wearables to provide location and productivity-related information about the employee might not be so appealing. 2015 will provide an exciting technology opportunity, but one that will need the corporate IT organization and its business partners to fully understand the human implications of new technology.
   
   
8. Big Data. The real Big Data issue for 2015 will be the availability of Big Data people and their Big Data skillsets rather than Big Data technology itself. Not only from a tail-end analytics and insight perspective, companies will also need the people and skills for building the new data architectures required to handle unstructured data and real-time input, and other changes required as the increased focus on large data sets continues to disrupt business and IT operations.
   
   
9. The Internet of Everything (IoE). Most of us are probably bored to death of hearing about how the IoT will change IT forever. It seems as though it has been a long time coming – from IP address management through service/fault management to Big Data analytics. Then there is the security of a whole new breed of network-connected end points. 2015 will see IT having to look beyond the traditional IT capabilities, such as availability and capacity management, to work closer with business colleagues on how these now-connected devices do, can, and will tie in to business operations and business models.
   
   
10. Software-defined everything. So, SDN -  where the control plane is abstracted from the hardware and all that jazz, will continue to mature; and software-defined storage is gaining interest. But this is about more than quickly moving from the old to the new state data center. Of course, that legacy data center might not want to change so quickly. It’s about increasing your agility, minimising vendor lock-in, and improving your ability to serve the customers and consumers of your IT services.

So that's our prediction list - its not to disimilar from others we've seen out there. What is missing do you think...any big new things you think we will see?!

Anyway, from all of us @Cisilon - Happy New Year.