TRENDING
By using emerging technologies to these
ends, ‘bias check’ could one day become a
routine sanitiser, like ‘spell check’- but with
society-wide benefits.
PREDICTION 6: MEDIA AND
ENTERTAINMENT WILL BREAK NEW
GROUND WITH ESPORTS
In 2018, we’ll see increasingly vast numbers
of players sitting behind screens or wearing
VR headsets to battle it out in a high-
definition computer-generated universe. As
hundreds of millions of players and viewers
tune-in, esports will go mainstream.
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AI WILL REPLACE
JOBS BUT
THESE NEW
TECHNOLOGIES
MAY ALSO CREATE
NEW ONES.
The esports phenomenon points to a wider
trend. Namely that even quintessentially
IT Infrastructure. In 2018, businesses are
overwhelmingly moving toward a multi-
cloud approach, taking advantage of the
value of all models from public to private,
hosted, managed and SaaS. However, as
more applications and workloads move into
various clouds, the proliferation of cloud
siloes will become an inevitability, thus
inhibiting the organisation’s ability to fully
exploit data analytics and AI initiatives.
This may also result in applications and
data landing in the wrong cloud leading to
poor outcomes.
As a next step we’ll see the emergence of
the ‘mega cloud’ which will weave together
multiple private and public clouds to behave
as a coherent, holistic system. The mega
cloud will offer a federated, intelligent view
of an entire IT environment. To make the
mega cloud possible, we will need to create
multi-cloud innovations in networking (to
move data between clouds), storage (to place
data in the right cloud), compute (to utilise
the best processing and acceleration for the
workloads), orchestration (to link networking,
storage and compute together across clouds)
and, as a new opportunity, customers will
have to incorporate AI and ML to bring
automation and insight to a new level from
this next generation IT environment.
PREDICTION 8: THE YEAR TO SWEAT
THE SMALL STUFF
In this increasingly interconnected world,
our reliance on third parties has never
been greater. Organisations aren’t simple
atomic instances; rather, they are highly
interconnected systems that exist as part
of something even bigger. The ripples of
chaos spread further and faster now that
technology connects us in astonishing ways.
Consider that one of the most substantial
data breaches in history occurred because
attackers used credentials to log into a third-
party HVAC system.
‘human’ activity like sport has been
digitalised. Technology has widened ‘sport’
to all types. You don’t need to have a certain
physique or build. If you have quick haptic
responses and motor skills, you can play and
claim victory. gains. In the future every business will be a
technology business, and our leisure time will
become a connected experience.
Additionally traditional sports, like cycling,
have upped their game by harvesting data
to identify incremental but game-changing Cloud is not a destination. It’s an IT model
where orchestration, automation and
intelligence are embedded deeply into
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PREDICTION 7: WE’LL JOURNEY
TOWARD THE ‘MEGA-CLOUD’
Due to our increasingly interwoven
relationship with machines, small subtle
failures can lead to mega failures. Hence,
next year will be a year of action for
multinational corporations, further inspired
by the onslaught of new regulations such
as GDPR. Prioritising the implementation
of cybersecurity tools and technologies to
effectively protect data and prevent threats
will be a growing imperative. n
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