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Over the last decade, Cloud has undoubtedly been the biggest game changer on the technology front, coupled with the explosion in data and devices. Whether it is IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Open Source on Cloud, or even allied areas such as Analytics and Mobility, the pace of adoption has been incredible.

Increasingly, we find that businesses no longer just view technology as an expense, but as an investment that can help them differentiate and stay ahead of competition. We see business owners being an integral part of the decision making, along with the CIO’s office.

More than ever, organizations are waking up to the importance of having a robust disaster recovery system in place to protect data, applications and servers in the event of unfortunate occurrences such as power outages, technical glitches and natural calamities.

For the past decade, cloud has been one of the dominant technology trends across the globe. With its many obvious advantages such as the ability to convert infrastructure costs from Capex to Opex, greater flexibility and scalability, businesses across the globe have embraced the cloud. The demand for cloud continues to grow. Gartner has predicted that the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 18 percent in 2017 to reach a total of $246.8 billion.

As organizations reel under increasing margin pressures, the focus is now on looking inward for improving efficiency and driving down costs. It's a game that spells Cost Optimization and ROI Maximization across the board – support functions included. Also with C-level executives aligning their business goals and collaborating across functional departments, the internal IT team, especially in mature businesses is now no longer viewed as a traditional support function working in a silo.

2017 saw technologies like IoT, Machine Learning, Cloud and Big Data Analytics take center stage. While these will continue to make big strides, we will see bar being raised even higher in 2018 in terms of technology adoption. Let’s take a look at the top five technology trends that you will be hearing a lot about this year.

1. Platforming the enterprise