{"id":36203,"date":"2019-12-11T14:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=36203"},"modified":"2019-12-11T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:41:22","slug":"the-trends-and-themes-set-to-shape-the-infrastructure-space-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2019\/12\/11\/the-trends-and-themes-set-to-shape-the-infrastructure-space-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The trends and themes set to shape the infrastructure space in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With 2019 now behind us, it\u2019s time to focus on the key trends and themes which are set to be front of mind for data centre and infrastructure teams in the new year. We hear from several industry experts who offer their insight into some of these trends to help IT and data centre leaders prioritise for the year ahead. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gartner has detailed\ntrends that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders should start preparing\nfor to support digital infrastructure in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trends include\nconsidering an automation strategy, a review of Disaster Recovery plans with a\nhybrid infrastructure model in mind, as well as the impact of IoT and a need to\ninvestigate the concept of HDIM, which looks to address the primary management\nissues of a hybrid infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross Winser, Senior Research Director at Gartner, said: \u201cThis past year, infrastructure trends focused on how technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) or Edge Computing might support rapidly growing infrastructure and support business needs at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile those demands are still present, our 2020 list of trends\nreflect their \u2018cascade effects,\u2019 many of which are not immediately visible\ntoday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winser encouraged\nI&O leaders to take a step back from \u2018the pressure of keeping the lights on\u2019\nand prepare for 10 key technologies and trends likely to significantly impact\ntheir support of digital infrastructure in 2020 and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full list is available\nat Gartner.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile,\nother industry experts have provided their views on the trends for the year\nahead\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role of\nAI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phil White, CTO at Scale Computing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most Artificial\nIntelligence (AI) technology today relies on the cloud and makes decisions\nbased on the collection of data that is stored in the cloud it is accessing.\nHowever, this can cause latency as data has to travel to data centres and then\nback to the device. For example, this can be problematic for self-driving cars,\nwhich cannot wait for the roundtrip of data to know when to brake, or how fast\nto travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of\nthis, more organisations are turning to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and\nEdge Computing to capture data at the source of creation, specifically to\nsupport high-performance use cases, such as AI. The implementation of HCI and Edge\nComputing in AI will see the industry reduced form factors, since HCI allows\nfor technology to operate within a smaller hardware design. In fact, some\ncompanies have already announced that they will be launching HCI Edge compute\nclusters that are no bigger than a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2020, it is\nexpected that 80% of all devices will have an Artificial Intelligence (AI)\nfeature. While the cloud has provided AI with the platform it needed to grow to\nthe level of being available on nearly every technological device, the combination of HCI and Edge Computing will give AI the\ntools needed to evolve to the next frontier, with smarter and faster\ndecision making for organisations in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncolocation industry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eltjo Hofstee, Managing Director at Leaseweb UK<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncolocation industry will continue to grow, particularly in the enterprise space\nas more organisations migrate IT infrastructures to the cloud. IT start-ups and scale-ups nowadays\nstart in the cloud from day one but are also pushing the colocation market.\nThis expansion is being driven to a large extent by cloud service providers,\nwho still require a space to host their systems \u2013 after all, even virtual\nservers need a home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Businesses that\nsubscribe to cloud and hosting services involving a colocation environment are\ninadvertently using colocation more, even if they might not be aware of it. We\nsee this as a key contributing factor to the overall development of the global\ncolocation market, particularly in the short and medium term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smart\ntechnologies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Manning, EVP Worldwide Sales at Cybera<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u2018uberisation\u2019\nhas become a popular way to describe how a business utilises the Uber business\nmodel to disrupt or transform their market. As 2019 comes to a close the Uber\ngenie is now well and truly out of the bottle and in 2020 we\u2019re only going to\nsee more and more examples of businesses transforming in this way. Take retail\nas an example. This sector has been transforming itself for years \u2013 from bricks\nand mortar, to online, to omni-channel. And we\u2019ll continue to see investment\nhere. Hospitality is another example. It is following closely on retail\u2019s\nfootsteps utilising smart technologies to deliver the optimal digital customer\njourney. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most\nsuccessful businesses will harness these smart technologies in four key areas:\ncloser and stronger customer engagement; an expansion of payment options;\noptimising their supply chain and logistics strategies; and optimising business\nprocesses through technologies like IoT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data\nsecurity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jon Lucas, Co-Director at Hyve Managed Hosting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the predictions\nabout the technology industry in 2020 are likely to be about the one thing on\nevery CIO\u2019s lips: cybersecurity. Recent research found that, in 2018, 70% of\ncybersecurity professionals said the cybersecurity skills shortage had impacted\ntheir organisation and the fact is that this cybersecurity skills gap is set to\nget even wider. This will mean the latest ease-of-management technology\nsolutions become a necessity rather than a luxury and the growing skills\nshortage will cause a boom in businesses choosing to outsource their IT\nsecurity requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the newest\ntechnological advancements still in their infancy, but growing exponentially,\nthings like IoT and 5G will bring about positive change. But, they also bring\nwith them complex new cyberthreats, as the mammoth\nsurge of data volume and the new ways to create and connect this data will make\nimplementing effective cyberdefences from every angle a much bigger task.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cybersecurity\nwill become top of the board agenda across all industries and businesses should\nexpect to increase cybersecurity spend and look to deploy specific training in\norder to rise to the challenge and keep ever-valuable data protected from new\nthreats and growingly sophisticated cybercriminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed Macosky, SVP of Product and Solutions, Boomi, a Dell Technologies business<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Businesses\nto wise up in 2020 and stop jumping on the latest tech train without evaluating\nROIs <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past\nfew years, companies have scrambled to follow the latest tech trends, forgoing\nROI assessments in frantic attempts to modernise. US$1.3 trillion was spent on Digital\nTransformation last year, but it\u2019s estimated 70% of those investments went to\nwaste. Moving every application and dataset into the cloud or applying\nserverless computing to every workload isn\u2019t always the best move \u2013 and I anticipate we\u2019ll see businesses finally applying lessons\nlearned from their over eagerness in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not\nfiscally responsible to incorporate every last tech trend; none of them are\nmagic bullets to Digital Transformation. Businesses are going to have to be\nmore strategic, customising their plans to their business objectives and\nculture, and placing emphasis on accelerated time to value over long-term, moonshot\nideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital\nTransformation strategies for the cloud will pull an about-face to hybrid IT\nenvironment <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies\nthat rushed to move all their business processes to the cloud are now finding\nit more expensive or cumbersome than anticipated. Over the next year, we\u2019re going to see\nmany businesses return to the hybrid model. Despite cloud computing\u2019s recent\nleaps and bounds, it still can\u2019t do everything on-prem can, creating\nbreakpoints across environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Wood, Chief Product Officer, Boomi, a Dell Technologies business<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is\niPaaS a thing of the past? The future of data integration in 2020 and beyond <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term iPaaS\n(integration platform as a service) first came around when we announced\nAtomSphere in 2008. Now, as we enter 2020, I believe we\u2019ll see a shift in this\narea as the market consolidates and continues to commoditise \u2013 Gartner predicts\nthat by 2023, up to two-thirds of existing iPaaS vendors will merge, be\nacquired or exit the market. Within the next year, I believe there will be a\nnew category\/term used to define the unification of applications, people,\nprocesses, systems and devices: data unification platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How\norganisations are dealing with their data isn\u2019t going to cut it in 2020 <\/strong>\u2013companies need an integration strategy <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global data\nregulations, combined with data silos will have organisations scrambling to\nrethink their data management strategies in 2020 and look toward data\nintegration \u2013 or risk getting left behind. Savvy businesses are now turning\ntoward this to glean more accurate and robust insights, streamline operations\nand improve business outcomes. This new strategy reduces the time and resources\nrequired to constantly reroute data to one place. As companies put dollars and\nresources behind Edge Computing and IoT next year as well, updating their data\nstrategy is critical so they don\u2019t risk losing out on the benefits of next-gen\ntechnologies or fall behind competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies\nwill rely more on metadata than data to provide insights <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overzealous\ndata analyses have brought many companies face to face with privacy lawsuits\nfrom consumers and governments alike, which in turn has led to even stricter\ndata governance laws. Understandably concerned about making similar mistakes, businesses will begin turning to metadata for insights in\n2020, rather than analysing actual data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By harvesting\ndata\u2019s attributes \u2013 including its movement, volume, naming conventions and\nother properties \u2013 companies will give indications of concerns around accessing\nPII and other sensitive information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metadata lends\nitself well to data privacy and with the correct Machine Learning and Artificial\nIntelligence modelling, can still provide critical information to the C-suite\nsuch as lead generation changes, third-party data access, potential breaches\nand more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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