In 2015, CIOs will be viewed as technical athletes and all-flash arrays (AFAs) will become the new norm. This is all according to John Hayes, Chief Architect and co-founder of Pure Storage, as well as Vaughn Stewart, Chief Evangelist at Pure Storage, a provider of all-flash enterprise storage.

Hayes and Stewart‘s predictions about emerging technologies are all part of our second annual Technology Predictions series in which industry experts share their predictions with us about the hot tech trends that they think will take center stage in 2015. We’ll be sharing all of their predictions with you over the next couple of days. Read on for more from Hayes and Stewart.

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Prediction No. 1: Enterprises will face new challenges when using IT

The key new challenge for 2015 will be figuring out how to use more IT in the pursuit of business goals. As IT equipment get easier to manage on a large scale, expenses have been drifting down, but that’s not an endgame.” –Hayes

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Prediction No. 2: CIOs will be viewed as technical athletes

In 2015, CIOs will be viewed as technical athletes who must balance strategic and tactical planning. These opposing goals will align when it comes to the benefit one gains from an increase in the speed of information.” –Stewart

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Prediction No. 3: All-flash arrays (AFAs) will become the new norm

In 2015, AFAs will continue to gain the most traction in the enterprise as the market will continue to shift away from traditional storage arrays. AFAs will become the new norm because the sub-millisecond latency of flash will continue to increase the quality and performance of every application. –Stewart

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2015 Technology Predictions graphic courtesy of SiliconANGLE