You see it every December: stories that look back at what made headlines since January, and other stories that forecast the 12 months in front of us. For the customers of technology solution providers, there seems to be a full plate of issues ahead of them, notably the cloud, the always-moving target of security threats to corporate infrastructures, and the skills and technologies that must carry out corporate missions.

The following looks at five issues impacting corporate IT organizations that may provide sales opportunities for solution providers in 2016.