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A5: Look out for “Smart pavements”. I talked to James Thomason @ctosays, CTO at EDJX yesterday about what companies like @IntegratedRoads are doing to make roads pay for themselves by turning them into corridors for sensors and mobile connectivity.

A5: We will see sectors like construction and education which are traditionally not tech sectors transform by leveraging tech heavily. It will be similar to the transformation we have seen in the retail, transportation and seeing now in healthcare.

A1 The decline of cloud computing. Users are realizing that not all use cases and applications/data can be in the cloud. Its just too expensive in many cases.

@SujathaSagiraju Feels like a sure bet.

A5 - Surprise: The world is not ready for the sheer quantity of tech labor needed. We decided to build the Tower of Babel and neglected to see if there are even enough bricklayers available to help build.

A5 - Shocker: The 4-year degree is dead in technology. The rise of boot camps and quick turnaround tech training transitioning into training on the job will be the only way we can keep pace.

A5. A scary thought is we'll see the use of AI in ransomware attacks. This again demands protection strategies.

A5. Expanded exploitation of containers will lead to endpoint resource takeovers. Exploitation of the public-facing applications (MITRE T1190) is a technique often used by APT and Ransomware groups which could lead to endpoint resource hijacking, container escapes etc in 2022

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A5. AR. I think VR is (mostly) just for play, but I have a feeling that 5G, cloud, lockdowns, video, and remote work all come together in AR. And more than just meetings - real work. #eWeekChat

A5 (2): A major public cloud provider will emerge in Europe, to be a serious competitor to the big 3 hyper-scale vendors.

@marsanfra I would add that expensive "Name Brand" college degrees will start to cede to more rapid ways for kids to develop their skills at a more economical price point.

A5: We'll start to see open source technology, developed by the community, top the performance benchmark charts over proprietary technology, across all technology categories. This will accelerate adoption of open solutions further within enterprises.

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A5: Competition for first-mover marketing for the seeded, if distant, metaverse and the associated rate of perceived acceleration of AR and VR. #eweekchat

@pspeciale Care to give a name?

@AndiMann Example of the application of #AR - my biz (@Qumu) recently helped a car company with a remote launch. Filmed with 360-degree cameras inside the vehicle so dealers could check it out , all emote. A fundamental shift in what this event can be. #eWeekChat

@pspeciale AI is expensive, will it be worth the investment?

Orange, Jaguar Networks, and Dassault Systems all have initiatives here. GAIA-X is a force behind Euro tech, cloud and data sovereignty.

@cdashton O wow! I had not thought of or seen then - but can only imagine. Not convinced this is a 'good thing'! #eWeekChat

@pspeciale ovh?

@marsanfra - no doubt, they are a player. I see increasing activity in the enterprise "sovereign" cloud arena.

A4: The Metaverse: after the hype, where are the use cases? And how will the ecosystem address the technology costs around low latency and the necessary high-bandwidth mesh of edge cloud sites?

A4: Data sourcing that doesn’t meet data privacy expectations will see a big loss in 2022.

A4. Optimistic view: all tech has rising demands from growing enterprise, service provider and government usage, so no real loser. Realistically: hardware will take a hit due to supply chain issues (servers, network, disks).

A4: While AI/ML is a huge buzz term, for enterprise software this has an upside cap in the short term. Not only are people tired about hearing of a vague term that means everything and nothing, in 2022 people want results.

A4 The Cloud. Momentum will slow due to the cost and performance for the needs of edge computing.

@pspeciale No one ever loves hardware (Course it does support everything....)

@brucekornfeld - we agree, the smart companies are taking a balanced - aka "hybrid" approach.

A4. On-premise and appliance-based enterprise tools are doomed. Their days are quite literally numbered as the vast majority of organizations move forward with cloud transformation of critical infrastructure.

A4: The Metaverse with trough to unrealistic expectations, coming back to be a thing later this decade, as video games first.

@cdashton totally agree

@marsanfra funny - we are at opposite ends of the spectrum. I think just the opposite. Cloud can't solve all problems.

A4: Maybe all things VM related in favor of k8s.

A4: Single cloud engagements, as companies diversify their cloud presence and storage architecture. #eweekchat

@RodSimmons Agree with this Rod. I am a huge fan of data and analytics, but the hype cycle is real, and ML to a large degree, AI almost completely, have failed to deliver enough. #eWeekChat

@marsanfra - I must say, we see a more balanced investment in hybrid infrastructures still as the general rule.

A4: RPA will slowly cede popularity to data in motion boosted by easy-to-use and accessible APIs. It won’t happen right away, but once developers and data scientists solve how to get the needed data in tandem with digital transformation efforts, RPA will become less of a focus

A4: Enterprise creating huge team to build internal biz apps. With the severe talent constrain, this strategy is akin to the mainframe strategy from years ago.

@pspeciale I ran on-prem, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Company need to make sure they understand why problems they are trying to solve.

@brucekornfeld never said was solving all. The ones I mainly care about. Fast speed to iterate and scale.

A3: A sector– which leverages tech heavily – and creates demand at scale in the online world and supplies to that need in near real-time in the physical world will be the biggest winner. That sector will probably be not a current tech sector.

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A3. Edge computing and edge-data. We see lots of data creation especially machine-data on the edge.

A3: Improving AI explainability - According to PwC, 50% of US business and tech execs say responsible AI that improves privacy, explainability, bias detection and governance is a top priority for adoption. So, I think Explainable AI will continue to grow/be a necessity

A3: SmartNICs will see increased traction in telecom and cloud data centers as operators focus on optimizing server utilization and increasing data center efficiency. Why waste expensive CPUs on functions that are better offloaded to programmable accelerators?

A3. NFTs. Outside of the grip they have on the digital art world, NFTs can become a factor in untangling current supply chain woes by providing authentication, provenance, and product tracing.

A3. The time to repurpose vulnerabilities into working exploits will be measured in hours and there’s nothing you can do about it… except patch
Attackers and security researchers alike will continue to hone their craft until weaponized exploits & POCs within hours of disclosure

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A3: Given the great resignation, probably all things related to onboarding and making people more productive more quickly. Agility is everything, including with acquisition of the team members.

A3. I feel like we are just starting to see the start of, for want of a better term, 'Productivity Analytics'. Understandign engagement levels for staff, customers, partners connecting from #WfH, #RemoteWork environments. #eWeekChat

A3: AI Governance is no longer about regulatory compliance for specific sectors. It will impact any businesses that try to understand what AI is truly doing. Therefore the adoption of AI Governance will increase.

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A3: Solving authentication and removing the need for users to remember secrets. We just stink at that.

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A3 Analytics. Too much data is being generated every second of the day. Lots of innovation going on to help organizations figure out the data they have and what they can learn from it....etc....etc....

@AndiMann We are seeing the sordid underbelly of less-than-competent middle managers who ar flailing at loss of 'control'. Keyboard loggers, video spying, is crude, but just the start. Watch this space! #eWeekChat

A3: Explainable AI eliminates the “black box” problem and offers greater auditability, transparency and confidence by expanding on the “why” behind automated decisions and predictions.

A3: The Internet of Things (IoT) will see uses cases and production-level development rise as device manufacturers and consumers demand more networked UI-level capabilities. #eweekchat

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@brucekornfeld Data lakes and analytics are hot topics in finance, healthcare and many other industries. Agreed!

A3: As data is the new economy, i think we'll see database engineering become cool again, this time on the data lake. The database engineers who can build a data lake stack with data warehousing capabilities but without compromises (lock-in and cost) will win.

@WaldropMike ooo, that is a good one Michael! I would defo buy that for a dollar. Anythign that smooths the transition of workers in and out, esp. Knowledge Workers and Digital Nomads, is going to explode! #eWeekChat

@brucekornfeld Definitely. It was ever thus! #eWeekChat

A3. MSPs will be an enormous part of success for IT and SecOps orgs worldwide. Consolidation of not only tools, but teams at a macro level will be the only way we can secure and manage endpoints worldwide at the scale necessary.

@pspeciale I am with you here Pascal. Edge is super interesting to me, and historically apropos (my accordion theory of IT). #eWeekChat