Our guest on the podcast this week is Lori MacVittie, Principal Technical Evangelist at F5 Networks. 

We discuss upcoming enterprise cloud trends for 2017. We look at how collaboration is advancing with platforms like Slack and determine whether this trend is here to stay. Deep learning is another important 2017 focus, especially because the economics have become favorable and analytics no longer cost as much. This means we can now create things like neural networks and advanced predictive algorithms at a much lower cost. We also look at the return of SQL, and discuss whether it ever left at all. It seems SQL will be important in 2016, from MongoDB and beyond. We see how containers are here to stay and to manage clusters, Kubernetes will be the top player in 2017. We see how serverless computing makes development easier, especially looking at AWS Lambda. Instead of deploying apps and microservices, we now deploy functions that do only one thing with serverless computing. This is a lot more to manage for large enterprises because of how granular functional programming can become. We also look at custom cloud processors as an alternative to using major chip manufacturers and processors. IoT will continue to forge ahead in 2017 and the keyword will be interoperability. With so many new devices, standards on security and governance will be crucial next year. IT spending as we know it may change in 2017 as more and more enterprises look into PC-as-a-service models instead of purchasing expensive equipment. Last, we discuss the rise of Python programming language and where it will go in 2017 from data science to teaching it to kids. 

News Covered InfoWorld: 9 enterprise tech trends for 2017 and beyond