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A8. That’s a joke, right? Maybe it’s taken a backseat to geopolitics in the short term (eg, infrastructure attacks), but the creation and distribution of ransomware will not fade until the costs outweigh the benefits (ie, the business case becomes negative).

A8. Security concerns remain strong and from what I’m reading #geopolitical, unrest and recession concerns will probably drive more – and more creative -- threats. #zerotrust & SASE should be starting points for IT teams

A8. Lol, no. As discussed, tech demonstrated in applications like ChatGPT are going to be a nightmare for the security industry.

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A8: Quite the opposite - #Ransomware and other attacks designed to steal money (as opposed to politically or "statement" motivated attacks) will continue to proliferate. These attacks will increasingly have real-world impacts. #eWEEKChat

A8: Absolutely not. In fact, we just found in the @Workato #StateOfBT Report that 45% of businesses reported cybersecurity as an area where they are investing more than ever before.

A8: (1/2) @Sisense works with a lot of cybersecurity vendors, and while we only see a part of their overall landscape I get a lot of interest in how to sift through tons and tons of data to find the relevant issues - #eWEEKChat

A8: In our recent cloud spend report, security was the top priority for 31% of respondents. Will not be deemphasized even with budget cuts. Attacks will continue to grow in sophistication.

A8: (2/2) intrusions, vulnerabilities without mitigations, etc. IDK whether ransomware specifically will stay common, but certainly there’s no likelihood of attacks in general declining. #eWEEKChat

(A8) You can’t deploy anything without thinking about security, because the attacks aren’t going away, so security will continue to be the real winner across the industry—it’s fundamental to everything anyone has talked about today.

A8: Traditional prevention measures are no longer enough. While having the proper precautions in place to prevent an attack is essential, it’s equally important to plan for rapid recovery - and building a meaningful resiliency architecture is critical to expediting data recovery.

A8: Ransomware attacks are not going anywhere. As enterprises migrate to the cloud they become attractive targets due to the weak points between service providers. The security sector is here to stay, and will only continue to grow.

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A8: oh hell no. Quantum computing is elevating hacker capabilities. geopolitical unrest is fueling attacks. It will get worse. #ITObservability to know what is happening in your landscape and #SASE to help protect. table stakes.

@Trentf_CA I agree on Zero Trust.

@Benaroni and there's no slowdown until people are actually caught. It's like the recent uptick in shop lifting...

(A8) As I said in earlier answers, that also means thinking about open source and the people who develop it—brand names like Kubernetes will get attention, but the grunt work is done by thousands of maintainers on projects you’ve never heard of.

A8: Ransomware continues unabated. What a great thing for data protection companies - so many vendors get to sell a lot of "stuff"!

Nostalgia for the good old days when our biggest worry was Anonymous.

A8: Security Assessments are critical as organizations are tasked to secure an increasingly complex & expanding attack surface. Companies will invest more in #SecOps automation solutions to enhance output & prioritization of their limited human capital

@petermattis Cloud native apps open the attack surface dramatically. Still, they're a good thing.

A8: Definitely not. We are not remotely equipped to protect against the varied attacks being launched against high value targets from around the world.

A8: No, but as the defenses improve, tactics and attacks will change.

A7: (1/2) Nope. But stuff in the ‘AI’ bucket will certainly outperform, especially in teams where data scientists are listened to and help guide business people around the #eWEEKChat

A7: (2/2) ‘what this is good/not good for’ discussions, or where use cases have already been pioneered and are now becoming well understood. #eWEEKChat

A7. It already has. In plenty of domains. If you’re not using AI in campus & branch netops you’re missing out. Explosion of more consumable data and a dearth of IT/network engineers mean that AIOps continues to become a trusted member of the IT team. #AIOps

A7. I don’t think it ever will, thanks to Hollywood. Companies that are not already seeing value from AI at this point are unlikely to ever capture it.

A7 No, but we’re getting closer. I don’t think we’re there quite yet.

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A7 – Perhaps in some specific areas, like generative AI. There is still a bit of hype with solutions that are not truly AI being marketed as such.

(A7) Yes and no? I think AI is going to be tough to deploy in useful ways. So we’re going to see growing pains. But the upside is going to be real and huge, just maybe only trivially in 2023.

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A7. In some cases, like in networking, AI is making an impact – IF the vendor chosen truly has an extensive & varied data lake to draw from. But many vendors have “AI-washed” capabilities so won’t be able to deliver against more experienced vendors in the space

A7: Orgs need data scientists, people technically capable and cognizant of AI/ML technologies, but labor market shortages have caused them to pull back on growth plans. Biggest barrier to AI in the enterprise is lack of expertise.

A7: Yes. Will go through a hype cycle like any other technology, and there will certainly be a "trough of disillusionment" as people realize AGI isn't literally right around the corner - but the "plateau of productivity" is going to live up to the lofty expectations.

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A7: Unfortunately, I think AI is more likely to live down to its deafening hype, by which I mean that the negative applications are more likely to be truly impactful in the near term. There are many positive applications for AI but those are progressing more slowly. #eWEEKChat

A7. Less hype and more value creation. Companies are already using voice AI to make products better and decrease staffing pressure. More of that in 2023 and ramping up value.

A7: probably not, but the hype is atmospheric, so it will still achieve some spectacular things. I think the use of AI in utilization of data will help propel companies into better data decision models. To a point made earlier, desktop BI is done.

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A7: AI won't live up to the hype in 2023, but the progress will continue. The exponential graph of AI+ML research papers by month is staggering, yet we're still in the early days. We can imagine the future impact of AI, but I don't think it will be felt in 2023.

A7. Automation, driven by AI, will enable companies to offer more flexibility to employees while allowing them to work from anywhere. But, no, not the AI of Hollywood. #eWEEKChat

@luis_in_brief (A7) for example, lots of surprisingly hard user-experience questions spurred by ML—copilot is beloved in part because a lot of hard work on that. ML isn’t just going to be magic to sprinkle on existing products.

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A7. Yes, I am a chatbot.

A7: We believe #AI is foundational requirement for every Autonomous Digital Enterprise (#ADE). It will continue to live up to the hype as it supports biz #automation by lowering costs, reducing errors, allowing faster execution & ultimately providing better customer experiences

@justinemerson Finding solutions that work versus building your own is the direction I'm seeing based on your comment. Spot on

A7: Echoing others' thoughts... AI is making some pretty remarkable strides forward, but it still won't be ready for mainstream use. Lots of hypes. In other words...we will need humans to do the work :slightly_smiling_face:

@hollandcbarry I find it a lot easy to come up with negative use cases for ChatGPT than positive ones (outside of entertainment).

AI is such a broad category...

@Benaroni But we can't tell.

@Trentf_CA The AI washing is excruciating.

A7: No. However, the conversation is mainstreaming, which will drive functional AI innovation, business models, and funding.

Q7: In 2023 perhaps not, but the beauty of AI is its continuous improvement arc is so strong. Our drive for efficiency and superior performance will keep pushing AI, and it will sneak up on all of us and start helping us often in subtle and unexpected ways.

(Q6) A lot of people are going to be surprised that government actually wants to regulate tech, and not just because of a “techlash”—there are real concerns in safety, AI, security, etc., not just social media.

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A6 - Twitter achieves profitability by converting SF HQ into luxury condo tower.

A6 Innovation is slowing down! Tech that helps us to innovate faster together & bring that connectivity back without being physically present.

A6: (1/2) ChatGPT is going to do a lot of our coding for us. Spoke with a peer in the industry today who was using it to generate ELT scripts - notoriously tricky to hand-code - #eWEEKChat

A6: (2/2) and was having considerable success. A lot of coding has become mechanical, and AI will let us software developers focus on the creative parts rather than writing yet another React control. #eWEEKChat

A6. The BEA will not call a recession during 2023. Inflation rate in the U.S. is 4.5% at end of year. You heard it here first.

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@luis_in_brief But will gov succeed in regulating tech? Seems like a long shot.

A6: Investments in Metaverse will create new and unexpected breakthroughs in Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR). Actual metaverse usage will largely remain in the realm of gaming, but AR and VR are far more broadly applicable. #eWEEKChat

@JamesMaguire Oh, absolutely. EU just moved on some of their AI regulation this morning, and they’ll move on product liability for software next year. As we learned from GDPR, what happens in Brussels spreads.

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A6. In networking I think the big surprise will be the rapidly growing adoption of #WiFi6E enabled devices & network infrastructure. Get ready! It’s quickly going from a US-centric story to a world-wide movement

@Benaroni It's been recorded! :)

A6: Organizations will continue to be surprised with how easy it is to #innovate when they can #automate mundane tasks and free up employee time to focus on more transformative projects

A6: A few years ago, Kubernetes felt like a savior. In 2023, the drawbacks and complexity of #k8s will start showing their effects in terms of usage. Lots of customers are foregoing k8s adoption and I expect to see this trend continue.

@RamChakravarti2 YES, with just a little bit of prep and implementation effort, the returns on Automation are huge.

A6: Year of meaningful headway in two areas that have been tougher for tech adoption - healthcare and education.

A6: maybe recency bias, but Chatbots are going to be the new buzzword but the imagination of what is possible will blow our minds in the coming year

(This is why I filed it under surprises, by the way—we’re very used to DC and Brussels being mostly hands-off and/or incompetent, and that’s changing but the industry hasn’t internalized that yet.)

@petermattis There's so much to like but maybe over hyped.

I'm just going to wish all the bad predictions away. . .

A6. I expect we’ll see more progress in “touchless” technology. It could be a breakthrough wearable product beyond a smart watch, or an automated restaurant drive through. Voice AI interaction is now strong enough to be the primary interface for these types of products.

A6: A minimaly invasive mixed reality headset is created, and companies that play in this space explode! I've always thought mixed reality is a much more inviting experience with greater application than pure VR, but not if you look like robocop

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@luis_in_brief Hopefully not too much regulation. Hard to belive whats in someones best interest anymore...

@BrandonGleklen Seems like education is more of a laggard than healthcare.

A6: Google exits the cloud business. GCP isn't keeping up with technology advances and Azure and AWS are just too dominant - hard for Google to make money.

@brucekornfeld Contrarian!

@brucekornfeld I could totally see this!

@hollandcbarry Best Answer on Q6!

@datanerdjake Great example of what I meant by AR/VR gains powered by metaverse investment.

@datanerdjake I can't see it :)

@rjworobel do not like chatbots, but maybe I'm in the minority

A6: Maybe not a surprise to some, but expecting 2023 to be a year of major medical breakthroughs with regards to fighting infectious disease and cancer as much of the research gains made vs COVID get applied to other areas.

@RamChakravarti2 Beyond automating mundane tasks, #ManagedServices offload non-core business value activities to external expertise, freeing up time to focus on their core competencies.

@Trentf_CA Well, “too much” is in the eye of the beholder. Hard to argue we’ve been over-regulated so far.

agree - but I think the healthcare cloud ecosystem starts to mirror the fintech ecosystem, primarily driven be advancements in foundational layer data interoperability.

@BrandonGleklen Makes sense.

@justinemerson Maybe ML fighting cancer?

@Trentf_CA I think there is a lot to be worried about, but that doesn't mean there will not be some amazing things as well

@Mizago Amongst many other advancements! But yes ML in healthcare is huge both for diagnostics and treatment development.

@brucekornfeld Google exiting the cloud business is certainly possible given their track record, but I've seen their investment up close and doubt that is going to happen.

Quantum computers are going to have actual impact earlier than expected. 2023 will continue to show breakthroughs and milestones, and we will come up with new ideas for practical applications in the near future.

A6: AI is making some pretty remarkable strides forward, but it still won't be ready for mainstream use. In other words...we still need humans to do the work - AI is great to break writers block tho!

A6: The legal industry, industry associations, governments, and security companies will begin to modulate emerging AI.

@rjworobel A6: I agree. We already see the seamless blending of AI-based and human chat as a best practice. In 2023 this will become the norm, and the line between the two will continue to blur. As the AI experience becomes better, we will cease to care about this distinction.

@mih_steven We will still need humans, but AI can jump in and make them more efficient through recommendations, anticipating their reactions, and completely taking over simple tasks. We are well on our way to human/machine hybrid work product as normal and accepted output.