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A5: The cloud may have reached the peak of its growth. Many organizations are realizing that the "ease" of cloud is often dwarfed by the costs as well as performance and reliability issues.

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Good point. @hpe did quite well last qtr

although companies seem to be less worried about cloud costs than the cost of people, so cloud is not going anywhere IMO

A5: (1/2) Might be a view informed by @Sisense ’s own market, but I expect to see significant slowdowns in the traditional BI and analytics sector - anyone still using desktop BI as their only view of data? #eWEEKChat

A5. I think we’ll see continued pressure on social media platforms. With increased scrutiny on user data and privacy, these platforms will need to grow beyond their legacy business.

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A5: (2/2) While it’s certainly not going away, I don’t expect much growth there; demand is shifting to embedded analytics and to in-context data workflows. #eWEEKChat

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A5: With more companies going back to work, collaboration companies will probably see a further decline in growth. On the up side, meal deliveries will probably be up! 😊

A5. Sorry to repurpose a previous answer, but I think the use of NFT’s and Blockchain in applications that provide defined utility will be a new movement (thanks to crypto skepticism). Think NFT’s for legal documents, as an example

A5 – Other than crypto? The entire sector likely to see contraction with budgets slashed, or static at best.

A5. Crypto is still murmuring some signs of life as we end 2022. But there is still further for it to fall. And it will.

A5: Hard to imagined but 2023 could be the year that the hyperscalers lose some momentum. The rush towards digital transformation during the pandemic is colliding with a rapidly growing spend and lock in. CFOs will take back control over cloud spend. #eWEEKChat

A5: ""Perk Point Solutions" - any tool seeing low utilization that provides questionably measurable value to a small group of people. Which can unfortunately describe a lot of cloud spend!

@JamesMaguireA5: Technology that is solving just one use case will see the greatest loss. Focus on platforms instead of technology that solves just features.

(A5) Ironically, I think it’ll be AI—lots of low-hanging fruit got picked this year, and both government and the tech labor force will be more skeptical. But slowing down from “literally unbelievable” to “merely extremely fast paced” will still be a lot to process!

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A5: Staying on the topic of #automation – automation for automation sake will go away in 2023. Tech has matured and it’s become clear that your technology solutions need to provide true business value and the days of looking at technology in a silo will be behind us

A5: We're all familiar with services that make it so easy to add subscriptions (with auto-renewal), and many of us have subscriptions that we no longer use and have forgotten about. Well, cloud is like that. #eWEEKChat

@datanerdjake I've been skeptical of NFTs and blockchain ~forever. Interesting technology that has been unable to find a truly compelling use case.

A5. There’s always crypto? 8-) In all seriousness, with SD-WAN seeing 200% y/y growth, anyone living off MPLS hardware & services may have a challenge

@datanerdjake Sounds like a solution looking for a problem.

@Mizago Perhaps increased societal pressure on (ie, against) social media platforms as well.

A5: Similar to what I shared earlier around open source managed services having a big 2023, we think the open source SaaS market will see a loss of momentum as companies will want control of their own data and apps.

A5: ML for the sake of ML. I think we see much harder requirements to justify these types of applications and jobs. This could also be said for just about any role in tech

@Benaroni Great point. I think future generations will look back on unregulated social media with wonder.

A5: UCCaaS. Companies are finding better ways to communicate. That is an industry destined for consolidation

@mizago Social media platforms will continue to lose their luster.

@hollandcbarry By which we mean cryptocurrency, of course. Actual crypto, which is to say cryptography, is booming and set to continue doing so.

@justinemerson Do mean companies like @zoom or others?

@Mizago Likewise, I've always hoped that future generations will look back on the era of gasoline and wonder.

@RobertBlumofe agreed! That's the way the best products are made, right?!?!?!

@RobertBlumofe - Yes! Thankfully happening before our eyes.

The explosive growth in videoconferencing and similar collaborative tools is over for now, and there will be slight contraction as we return at least part time to the office.

@TimCallan Agreed!

A5: The metaverse. If it's accepted, it's a long-term play.

A4: Running 2nd to automation as a 2023 trend is AI + Automation together to improve operational efficiency. Impacting everything from security ops, IT ops, Cust Ops,....

A4 – Multi-hybrid cloud adoption, recalibration of cloud workloads with cost optimization being top priority.

A4. #Sustainability will impact the tech sector in a big way in 2023 as everyone adapts to economic pressures, new regulations & general #climate change concerns

A4: 2023 could be the year when most people first experience the inability to do something important in the physical world because of something that happened in the cyber. #eWEEKChat

A4: (1/2) Using data to improve manufacturing processes and find efficiencies. For years this has been a niche use case, but now we’re seeing all sorts of applications from using data from CMMs and PLCs to tune factory lines to #eWEEKChat

@JamesMaguireA4: (2/2) using collections of IOT sensors to optimize aging of bourbon. It’s leading to a lot of interesting applications of classifiers and clustering techniques, and there’s a lot of interest in getting the ‘so what’ insights out to line workers and factory floors

(A4) ML’s switch from “we did cool demos” to “we’re actually shipping products”—going to be very exciting, but also very challenging from a legal/regulatory perspective.

A4: We've all seen the headlines, for example, a hospital shut down because of a cyber attack, but most of us have yet to be impacted directly. Unfortunately, that's going to change. #eWEEKChat

A4: ESG and Sustainability specifically will enter more buying conversations. Especially power consumption - related to my prior answer, energy prices being so volatile will start making power utilization a consideration in risk factors.

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A4. I put generative AI in this category (vs a winner in 2023). It's still a mostly trend and I'm not sure we'll see lasting monetization of it yet in 2023. Happy to be wrong of course, as I'm excited about it.

@luis_in_brief We'll need Explainability, among other things.

@luis_in_brief Exactly. Not just cool demos anymore.

A4: Big year for vendor consolidation as a way to cut costs and simplify resources needed to support tools and technology.

A4: Extensive technology-enabled #automation will also become even more pervasive, leading to “hyperautomation,” or the continuous integration of automation into business operations.

@Mizago But certainly generative AI is inevitable, right?

@hollandcbarry Agreed. Multi and hybrid cloud are coming up increasing frequently in my world. Public cloud looks unlikely to win every workload.

A. US battery investment will kickstart EV production – a boom for localized battery manufacturing. #eWEEKChat

@dscottcastle #IoT is interesting. We're offering connectivity that doesn't require overlay devices, more stuff to manage and more expense...

@dscottcastle Who can complain about using digital processes to create better bourbon? This is the killer app we've all been looking for. :)

A4: Public cloud providers will make huge investments into open source software, and make more contributions back to the community. More like going on the “offensive” by contributing to open source more aggressively and even donating their own projects.

@Trentf_CA I wonder if the looming recession actually hurts sustainability initiatives, that is the ones that cannot be tied to profits

A4. I'll add to the AI. . .Conversational interfaces and virtual assistants for netops teams. Several virtual assistants have come to market, but enterprises and network operators (and vendors) have been slow to adopt. #NetOps

@petermattis A reconning with the hyperscalers is coming.

@JamesMaguire I believe it is, mainly because it can be used to make tools to increase human efficiency. We're addicted to that sort of thing.

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A4: Rationalization of tech landscape. Companies went all in on tech purchases during Covid and now there are complicated landscapes. I see a rationalization as a key to efficiencies.

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@petermattis #hybrid cloud. Dare I say repatriation of workloads in some cases.

@datanerdjake It's a good question. I sure hope not.

A4: 2 of 2 - efficiencies both for tech processes and business processes

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@RobertBlumofe A4: A friend recently told me a story about trying to go lunch in a local restaurant and being turned away because the computers were down. They had food, staff, water, power, and tables. But the computers were down so they couldn't serve food.

@crosby_justine Better yet, something other than lithium.

@TimCallan Hope they don't waste time on Buffalo Trace. - jk

@petermattis The future is hybrid, but not in that applications will dynamically move from on-prem to cloud & back. Applications that are not cloud-native but that are still needed likely stay where they are. New applications will be built with a specific hosting location in mind

Yeah, I’ve written some about explainability on my open+ML blog; it’s going to be very necessary and a hot micro-trend itself: https://www.openml.fyi/transparency-and-other-rule...

@TimCallan We're all going to have experiences like that.

@Benaroni I suspect we might see some repatriation of workloads, though that will remain marginal. There is a really enormous number of enterprise workloads that are still in private data centers.

The trick is getting customer to track the value once they start using AI. It's not always cut and dry

@RobertBlumofe A4: I agree with you. Just getting my hair cut is an extremely digital experience. A person with scissors and a chair, and it all depends on the IT systems to operate.

A4: Manufacturers will push the Internet of Things (IoT) a leap forward to advance automation and the front-line data demanded for business intelligence and end user AI.

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