Modern IT trends
Nowadays, IT is developing day by day. Personally, I’m amazed at the
technology we have available to us. It’s astounding to have the power to
retrieve almost any information and communicate in a thousand different ways
using a device that fits in your pocket. There’s
always something new on the horizon, and we can’t help but wait and wonder what
technological marvels are coming next. Technology upgrades can be delayed due
to budget and time constraints Yet that might have to change as some of
the biggest advances in the history of technology make their way into the front
lines of service delivery. The IT trends complements are wood flooring, technology,
paint, kitchen, furnishing, fashion, food trends etc. Here's an exploration of
the top ten IT trends in the next half decade, including some of the latest
industry data, and what the major opportunities and challenges are.
TREND 1: SOCIAL
MEDIA - SOCIAL BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE 2.0
While
mobile phones technically have a broader reach than any communications device, social media has already surpassed that workhorse of the
modern enterprise, e-mail. Increasingly, the world is using social networks and
other social media-based services to stay in touch, communicate, and
collaborate. Now key aspects of the CRM process are being overhauled to reflect
a fundamentally social world and expecting to see stellar growth in the next year. As
Salesforce's Marc Benioff was very clear in his dramatic keynote at Dreamforce
last month, leading organizations are becoming social enterprises.
TREND 2 : CLOUD COMPUTING
Of
all the technology trends on this list, cloud computing is one of the more
interesting and in my opinion, now least controversial. While there are far more reasons to adopt cloud technologies than just cost
reduction, according to Mike Vizard perceptions of performance
issues and lack of visibility into the stack remain one of the top issues for
large enterprises. Yet, among the large enterprise CTO and CIOs I speak with,
cloud computing is being adopted steadily for non-mission critical applications
and some are now even beginning to downsize their data centers. Business
agility, vendor choice, and access to next-generation architectures are all
benefits of employing the latest cloud computing architectures, which are often
radically advanced compared to their traditional enterprise brethren.
TREND
3 : SMART PHONES
Smartphone
buyers have a lot to look forward to in 2017. Devices will be thinner, faster,
and perhaps a bit more intelligent than you’d like.
Virtual
reality will spread to budget smartphones, and they will also have better
graphics, higher resolution screens, and more storage. More than ever, you’ll
be using your smartphone to pay for products and log into websites.
Deep
learning could help smartphones get a fix on user behavior and improve the
mobile experience. We could see a renaissance in smartphone designs, and
wireless audio could replace headphone jacks in more handsets. USB-C will
replace older connector and charging cables.
TREND 4 : AMAZON ECHO
The Amazon Echo is technically a
Bluetooth speaker, but you wouldn’t buy one just to play music. Instead, it best serves as a Siri
or Google Now for your home, a digital assistant that can tell you the weather,
crawl the Web for random info, fire up some music, set alarms or calendar
events, adjust a growing number of other smart home devices, and more, all upon
your request.
Amazon’s
done a stellar job of updating and improving the Echo since it launched late
last year, and the whole thing is simple to use and operate. Like most of the
devices on the list, it’s also something to gawk at. It might bring us closer
to a Her-style existence, but as a friendly, hands-free bridge to
the Internet, the Echo is nice to have around.
TREND 5 : ROBOTIC SURGERY
Robotic
surgery, computer-assisted surgery, and robotically-assisted surgery are terms for
technological developments that use robotic systems to aid in surgical procedures. Robotically-assisted surgery was developed to overcome the
limitations of pre-existing minimally-invasive surgical
procedures and to enhance the
capabilities of surgeons performing open surgery.
In the case of enhanced open
surgery, autonomous instruments (in familiar configurations) replace
traditional steel tools, performing certain actions (such as rib spreading)
with much smoother, feedback-controlled motions than could be achieved by a
human hand. The main object of such smart instruments is to reduce or eliminate
the tissue trauma traditionally associated with open surgery without requiring
more than a few minutes' training on the part of surgeons. This approach seeks
to improve open surgeries, particularly cardio-thoracic, that have so far not
benefited from minimally-invasive techniques.
TREND 6 : RENEWED FOCUS ON OWNERSHIP AND ACCESS TO DATA AND META DATA
Control and ownership of data and
metadata will emerge as a point of discussion and contention in the year ahead.
That’s because data and metadata are the ‘gold dust’ that allow businesses to
gain rich insights about customer behaviour, and thereby differentiate
themselves in the market.
Truly digital businesses are ones that have
their customers firmly in their sights. Think of the businesses that we admire
for being digitally-proficient: Airbnb, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. What
differentiates them is their obsession with customer service and insights.
Their entire business models are focused on tracking consumers as they move
through the world.
So disruptors aren’t the ones that own the
technology … they’re the ones that own the customer
TREND 7 : AUTOMATION
AND DEVOPS BECOMES A BUSINESS CONCERN
Earlier we defined ‘digital’ as a
business model that’s built on IT. This means that automation and DevOps are no
longer just relevant to application developers in the IT department – they need
to be embraced at every level within the organisation.
Over the last year, there’s been a
great deal of interest in new DevOps companies such as Puppet, Chef, and
Terraform. With good reason. But, these new players’ technologies shouldn’t be
dismissed as something of interest just to developers; we believe automation
has to be at the very foundation of all IT systems and processes. We believe that if automation and DevOps become part of your business’s
mindset and culture, they’ll become a source of competitive advantage.
TREND 8 : CENTRALISED
TRANSACTIONAL MODELS ARE COMING UNDER ATTACK
In most industries, central
‘authorities’ exercise control over the community of participants and as a
result, claim that they have a reason to charge a premium for processing
transactions.
These centralised transaction models
are beginning to be disrupted by peer-to-peer platforms like Blockchain, which
support micro transactions that are virtually free of charge and can be performed
in real time and at scale.
In the last few months we’ve seen
Blockchain technology extending beyond the financial services community into
the world of consumer goods and other sectors. It’s even being used to
eliminate counterfeiting
TREND 9 : HYBRID
IT HAS COME OF AGE
Today, the world of IT is truly hybrid.
There’s no such thing as a greenfield environment, unless you’re a very small
start-up. This means you need to manage a blend of on-premise and cloud-based
assets ─ and your cloud assets typically won’t be delivered by a single
provider.
We believe this will have implications
on the skills sets that businesses require. In the world of hybrid IT you need
to be able to treat your on-premise assets like software, and be skilled in
managing cloud-based infrastructure and software. The focus will move from
‘units of build’ to entire workloads that are underpinned by a complete
reference architecture that has been tested and validated and has clear scaling
metrics. These workload reference architectures are characterised by the level
of automation at the provisioning, transition, and operational cycles. The way
you design and operate systems in a hybrid IT environment is vastly different – as is the
breadth of skills required.
TREND 10 : 3D
BIOPRINTING
3D bioprinting is the process of creating
cell patterns in a confined space using 3D printing technologies, where cell function and viability are
preserved within the printed construct. Generally, 3D bioprinting
utilizes the layer-by-layer method to deposit materials known as Bioinks create tissue-like structures that are later used in
medical and tissue engineering fieldsBioprinting covers a broad range of
materials. Currently, bioprinting can be used to print tissues and organs to
help research drugs and pills. In addition, 3D bioprinting has begun to
incorporate the printing of scaffolds. These scaffolds can be used to
regenerate joints and ligaments. The first patent related to this technology
was filed in the United States in 2003 and granted in 2006
Conclusion, Anyone in the tech industry knows that making
predictions about the course of technology’s future, even a year out, is an
exercise in futility. Surprises can come from a number of different directions,
and announced developments rarely release as they’re intended. Still, it pays to forecast what’s coming next so you can prepare your
marketing strategies (or your budget) accordingly. Whatever the case may be,
it’s still fun to think about everything that’s coming next.
