Look ahead a year: What predictions do you have for the mid-market around technology adoption?

What I think we will see is that middle-market companies will continue to invest in emerging technologies where they see results. And I think they will continue to make forays, pilot them, see what comes out of it – if it's successful, move forward and if not, move on to something else. I think we're going to start to see a real convergence; we're starting to see it with cloud, with cloud device-oriented things like Internet of Things [and] analytics. How do you bring all that together and create convergence to drive more value than just the technology on its own? I think we're starting to see, particularly in the retail space, people start to do that. That trend will continue.

And obviously, I hope the CIO will continue to become more relevant.