Future

Complexity

Cluster Scheduling
Service & Dependency Isolation
Service Discovery
Virtual Machine and Provisioning
Network Optimisation & Traffic Management
Process Control
Monitoring & Network Security
Distributed Systems Theory & Concurrency Models
Fault Tolerance
Continuous Integration
Configuration Management

So the question becomes for a CIO, what should you optimise for?... I am going to argue, that... the only thing one should optimise for, is for change... Engineering methodology has to change to optimise for these new things: Evolvability, Specialisation, to allow for Experimentation, and this is a place where I think network operators... have to learn that unless they do that, that if they avoid the risk of experimentation, they would be taking the biggest risk you can take, which is to not take risks. But you cannot have that without change isolation.

- Vinod Khosla (Former CEO @ Sun Microsystems) ONS2014 Keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q61VkqZRjck)