As the New Year approaches, the team here at Wing has highlighted some of the most important trends we think will shape the enterprise tech landscape in 2016. 

Jut plays a key role in Data-First operations. It is an Operations Data Hub, where the data being generated by your infrastructure, applications and users is collected and made available for holistic analysis and visualization. If you believe my argument about operations data becoming a critical strategic asset in the new software-centric enterprise, then this is an important role indeed. The more your company lives and dies by its software, the more it will benefit from Jut.

The Snowflake team has brought focus, and a very fresh approach, to reinventing the data warehouse. It had a unique starting point: founders Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes and Marcin Zukowski had helped lead the prior generation of data warehousing developments.

Mohit Aron, Cohesity's founder, is leading a firm that will transform the way in which companies manage, store and learn from their data. Wing first invested in Cohesity in 2013 and we are proud to be part of its latest financing round.

Instart Logic tackles the challenges of application delivery in a world with exploding mobile usage and cloud applications. The company recently raised a substantial financing round, so it’s a good time for me to explain how I got involved with Instart as an investor and board member, and why Wing Venture Capital continues to invest and stay closely involved with the company.

Once thought to be only legend, rogue waves occur when previously distinct waves merge to form a new one of unprecedented scale. As far as technology shifts go, DMC is a rogue wave.

We are at a nexus of change in business markets that will likely take 15 years to play out, and be at least an order of magnitude greater than any that has come before.

Looking at the history of our industry, we notice a pattern of transformations every 15 years or so. Each time, the number of computing devices within the new model increases by an order of magnitude,…