7 Technological trends that will influence digital infrastructures in the coming years

2020 was the year the world changed, and when it comes to digital infrastructure, the shock accelerated a major transformation. Join us to learn about technology trends in digital infrastructure in the coming years.

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2020 era AND year of disruption in all aspectsthe health crisis represented changes deep in all sectors; in the way of doing business, of working, of living. In the field of digital infrastructure, this situation has accelerated years of transformation.

Companies of all sizes Yes sectors have given way to accelerated adoption of infrastructure and technology digital in just a couple of months. Era a change that could have occurred at a natural pace In the next 3-5 years.

While Covid-19 dominated the headlines from the year 2020, the development and diffusion of IT infrastructure Him obviously a trend irreversible towards a quick one digital transformation and not just in the corporate sector, but beyond, both in governments and in society.

A catalyst that has been fundamental to the continuity of most companies and resilience social, this is ratified a complete account of thean International Telecommunications Unionof HIM (THAT).

In this turbulent ocean of upheavals it is not easy to glimpse trends technological In the digital infrastructure for years to comebut we will make an approximation.

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1. Cloud infrastructure will dominate

In an era of almost absolute digitalisation, an IT infrastructure based on its own architecture is increasingly less functional.

Native IT solutions and technologies cloud AS: MicroservicAndS, architecture APIs Ffirst; containers, DevOps and its orchestration systems, as well as service networks and immutable infrastructures, They come together to enable companies of all sizes and industries to develop, run and manage scalable systems and applications that can be easily deployed globally.

One name encompasses all this and represents the tip of the iceberg: Ahybrid architecture Multiple-Cloud, a change accelerated and significant TO 8 of every 10 world-class companies with the most demanding availability requirements, aagility, performance and latency, depending relationship of IDC Corp.

The end of 2020 and cloud-native solutions support everything, especially technology trends thateh imposed the health crisis: from eLearning to telemedicine, from remote working to the boom in e-commerce.

2. Virtualization e global distribution more within reach

With a architecture in the cloud, o hybrid environment o Multiple-Cloud, the distribution and management of A distributed infrastructure globally It boils down to building a closed loop and an adaptive distributed systemcapable, thanks to open technologies and software.

It wasturo aims for automation: virtualizecontain and abstract any load of work of physical devices which enables agile deployment of IT infrastructure resources and increasingly faster deployment times, especially in hybrid environments Multiple-Cloud.

TO the year 2023 las PProjections estimate that 8 out of 10 companies They will evaluate their relationships with vendors and business partners based on the comprehensive implementation of digital strategies, resources and autonomous IT operations.

3. Cyber ​​security is strengthened

By ITUA IT security it is the key to reliable and sustainable digital transformation.

Something especially evident during crisis situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, where All organization it moved online and where cyber defenses They prioritized the gravity of the situation.

A situation that has not gone unnoticed cyber criminals who prospered in distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS)disruptive malware e ransomwareproliferation of URL malicious and attacks smishing.

And this is where detection and response systems or platforms are born endpoint (EDR) emerge as global protection, at the level corporate far beyond traditional antivirus.

4. Cloud first will drive innovation

Another technological trend In the infrastructure digital it is the paradigm First cloud.

It is estimated that by 2023 more than half of enterprise data will be generated and processed in the cloud, a significant increase from the 10% recorded in 2019.

We increasingly live and work in the cloud, and computing infrastructure is moving away from data and geographically centralized infrastructure at an exponential rate.

From collaboration tools for individuals to banking support, applications and systems are designed from the ground up in facilities PaaS or IaaS of solutions Multiple-Cloud.

Architecture capable of processing an unimaginable number of data of distinct it wasentities, with support for multiple applications e microservices capable of interconnecting at low latency ensuring the best user experience.

A As computers and data migrate to environments multicloudnew ones will emergeos specific infrastructure requirements. Include capacity and availability requirements related to presence, power, networke.ghardware, modularity and extensibility needs; Until fully automated operations (NoOops) and availability zones that span multiple data centers distributed.

Requirements that deberán integrate efficiently and be optimized at the same time.

5. Cloud infrastructure drives 5G connectivity

2021 is the year the true implementation of 5G begins, e.g a breakthrough in connectivity.

Enterprises will progressively include the 5G network in their IT infrastructure deployment, the functions and requirements of which require a cloud-extended architecture.

IT environments close to the 5G network and cloud-adjacent data centers with greater efficiency will allow us to take full advantage of the 5G boom in the near term.

A trend that points to innovative computing paradigms in uses that previously could not take advantage of these advances based on principles of more and better geographic coverage, reliability, bandwidth and security.

We are talking about multiples in Gigabytes per second o 100x faster speeds, access latency up to 1 millisecond and endpoint never seen before (droneshome automation, vehicles and other intelligent equipment).

At the enterprise level, new business models and major changes to the underlying infrastructure are on the horizon.

6. Geographically distributed AI progressively migrates to the cloud

Artificial intelligence is nothing new, but its advances in both hardware and deep learning will transform many industries, and the first steps have already been seen in autonomous driving.

The data flow represented by AI doubles every 10 weeks and its algorithmic efficiency every 16 months, contravening principles such as Moore’s Law.

And digital infrastructure is preparing to handle massive AI workloads with fewer physical centers centralized, more virtuality and processing resources.

The automatic scaling offered by the environment Multiple-Hybrid Cloud and its advanced models are the arideal structure for collecting and develop AI training models according to increasingly stringent power, latency and performance requirements.

7. Data centers will align with the “green agenda”

Behind the health crisis there is the climate change factor and at a global level there is consensus for changing corporate objectives towards an agenda more in tune with the environmental crisis.

The minimum necessary e.g OKreduce carbon emissions. The ways here’s how the hardware and IT industry can contribute to this virtualization their physical structures, make the equipment tangible something reusable and non-polluting, as well as reducing energy needs.

This is one of the predictions of the aforementioned IDC analysis Corpspecifically alludes that by 2025, 9 out of 10 companies on the list Forbes Global 2000 will require reusable materials in their IT chains, carbon neutrality goals for facilities with partners and suppliers tomore than lower power consumption requirements.

Already dSince 2020, several operators have opted for alternative energy sources, carbon neutrality goals Yes Large data centers in line with the sustainability agenda in response to agreements such as Him Green Deal of the EU.

Indeed, the next generation of data centers will be decentralized and integrate communities as ecosystems more aligned with connectivity, power generation, emissions and heat.

Even in the difficulties and serious changes imposed by the health epidemic, it is this is clearThings will never be the same again. ANDis digital acceleration and understanding of will remain the new ones trends which will influence the digital industry by organizational leaders is critical to adaptation and competitiveness.