New Year’s Resolutions for IT professionals

Whatever your plans for the new year, its resolutions should be simple and practical

It becomes even a little cliché mock New Year’s resolutions. People often make resolutions because they want to make life better. OK, often fail to keep them, but at least try.

The people with whom we should really be cautious are those that give up completely, and seemed to his hopelessness and lack of ambition a kind of badge of honor.

The IT industry may have its faults, but give up at the first challenge is not one of them. Unlike. The tenacity of the people of this sector comes even be admirable. Most IT professionals does not collapse every minor setback, and is really committed to making the world a better place (even if, sometimes inadvertently create the opposite effect).

The only problem of IT professionals is that your New Year’s resolutions are generally too ambitious. What almost always requires changes in habits. You can not quit without making major changes in lifestyle, for example.

Most resolutions need a solid foundation. For this reason, more resolutions on the IT industry must be feasible and realistic. And require only a new feature, some practicality and determination.

Here is the list of items that IT professionals will not want to run out in the new year.

1 – Security Solutions
Heartbleed, Shell Shock, Regin, backdoors, leaks and endless hacks, data breaches .. Security is an issue so boring! But in 2014 came close to the top of the priority of organizations. And the context for 2015 should remain lackluster. Meet the biggest internal security flaws and know how to defend.

2 – Ideas for Internet of Things
In 2015, everything will be intelligent. Smart homes. Smart Trackers. Smart cars. Drones. Sensors. Find your niche, before any other company does.

3 – More clouds
2014 was the year of consolidation of the Cloud Computing model. 2015 will be about managing all these different cloud services that your company employs. Or the final adoption of hybrid clouds. Look better prepare for this new reality.

4 – More data
Big Data was another big buzzword in 2014 and before. Do not expect more companies to effectively use the “Big Data” as to whether or not it applies to your business. Choose an area and test. And start to worry about storage and retrieval of data, structured and unstructured.

5 – More privacy
You NSA, or against? Make sure the products you use are proof of the NSA. Make it a prerequisite and reap the rewards of being a conscious company, which ensures the privacy of its employees, partners and, above all, customers.

Full article: http://cio.com.br/

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