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A3 – AI/ML wins again, specifically anticipating a wave of innovations built on top of advances in NLP and text-to-anything models.

@JamesMaguire A3: (1/3) Based on what @Sisense is seeing with its customers in terms of new value creation and user engagement overall, I’m looking closely at healthtech, and separately, in logistics. #eWEEKChat

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A3. With continued pressure to manage costs in an uncertain market, companies will accelerate their use of automation to further streamline costs. AI will play a big role in this, in particular in the service industry, where staffing challenges persist.

A3: In 2023 cyber security will continue to be top of mind for the C-Suite, and the winners will be those vendors who can go beyond point solutions and provide broad and effective protection in the form of suites and platforms. #eWEEKChat

A3: Automation will be the biggest winner. Modern cloud architecture & integration allows us to do more with less. Which is good, since our research shows that 39% of IT leaders say they're expected to get more done with fewer resources.

A3: (2/3) In both cases, we’re seeing vendors in those spaces evolving rapidly, adding a lot of new data-enabled technologies to differentiate, and expanding their user footprints as they reach outside their typical user departments and into related orgs #eweekchat

A3: Generative AI is the easy answer, but it's the right one. Most interesting thing to see will be where the value primarily accrues: in incumbents who incorporate into generative AI into their offerings, or new startups that build from first principles.

We're going to start to see AI and ML eat the tech world, though I suspect that we're only going to see this as a trend, not complete domination until a few years further out.

A3: If 2023 is the year we see super potent phishing powered by Generative AI, then maybe 2023 is also the year we start adopting authenticated email (and other forms of messaging), at least in the corporate context. #eWEEKChat

A3: (3/3) like operations and finance. #eWEEKChat

A3. security (again!) – Continues to be a primary concern for organizations. Remote work, access control, more #cloud services & growing use of #IoT creates challenges not easily solved by a single solution

(A3) boring relative to new hotness like AI, but it’s going to be the same as it has been for several years running: security, particularly in cloud. Every cloud player is going to have to announce initiatives in open source package-level security work.

@trentf_ca Security is ALWAYS a hot sector.

A3: AI/ML, computer vision, and digital twin will all push the boundaries for automation. #eWEEKChat

@hollandcbarry Security with built-in #AI is something I'm constantly asked for now

A3. Anything GREEN. It's cool to be cool. Expect to hear a lot more about immersion cooling, power efficiency, and the power of AI/ML to better manage servers and surrounding infrastructure. #SustainableNetworking

A3: Security continues to be massively important. New threats are evolving all the time, but the old threats never go away. Our footprint, complexity, and breadth of environments only goes up. All this means additional risk and need to address it.

A3. NFT's will be used for more practical purposes now that the value of digital monkey's are decreasing. They will be used to bolster the security industry to identify individuals

@RobertBlumofe -- Generative AI for nefarious uses is a sobering prospect.

A3: Renewable energy tech is a bit off the radar for many of us, but it continues a relentless climb which is astonishing even the experts. Remember that energy is what powers all our other endeavors, and making it clean ensures we have a nice world to live in.

A3: Security will continue to get more budget. With the geopolitical environment turning more antagonistic, more focus will be on securing critical infrastructure: both government owned and privately owned.

@Trentf_CA Hearing this a lot too

A3: The Open Data Lakehouse market will see much more adoption, especially by leveraging open source. As the market further chooses open options for table formats, compute engines and interfaces, the Lakehouse version of the LAMP stack will emerge.

A3: again, the winner is tools that support a thinner workforce such as AIOps and #monitoring. Companies can't worry about uptime while trying to be more strategic with less people to do it.

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A#: or energy via the #nuclearfusion break through that was recently announced (fingers crossed)

A3. A lot of Security talk here. Can't disagree. And the line between networking and security will continue to blur. There’s no other way forward. If you’re gonna connect something to the network you have to secure it.

@datanerdjake In decades.

@datanerdjake HUGE!

@carterbusse We're betting on AI & automation. It should get interesting in the coming years

@datanerdjake Ha, would take care of our energy concerns, but I'm not holding my breath.

@timcallan It is interesting to consider how something like ChatGPT can both improve security (pointing out vulnerabilities in code) and open up new vectors (bespoke phishing attacks).

@datanerdjake separating NFTs and Block chain from currency should give those technologies a new life

@Benaroni a boy can dream

@rjworobel Yep, labor shortages and skills shortages are only getting worse.

@rjworobel agreed, applying them to applications with tangible utility seems like a natural evolution

@crosby_justine Digital Twins applicable across multiple industries - quite interested in adoption stats in next 2 years

@hollandcbarry AI is eating the world. . . and this chat.

A3: Data management to support ML models and AI training and a greater commitment to realizing department-level business analytics.

- Agree!

100%

A2. With smaller budgets, teams & a focus on driving business results, IT is looking at faster ways to roll out & manage projects, so Network as a Service - or #NaaS - is no longer taboo and will see expanded adoption

A2: (1/2) We predict that AI-based technologies will rapidly get much, much better. Advances in predictive, chatbots and NLG, and other statistical functions will make it far easier for businesspeople to get a handle on what data means, #eweekchat

A2. Economic uncertainty will put additional momentum behind the technology that makes #reshoring possible. The rise of resilient, software-driven #automation will help mitigate the transformation barriers. #eWEEKChat

A2. Given economic conditions, the market has become increasingly pragmatic. As a result, 2023 will feature practical uses for technology, asking: How is it growing revenue and saving costs. This strengthens the opportunity Voice AI, which offers both propositions.

A2: (2/2) and the tooling to run and deliver these capabilities will be easier to use and require less and less involvement from data scientists. #eweekchat

A2: #EdgeComputing will create ample opportunity for organizations to leverage each piece of #data to move faster than competitors, to create exciting workplaces for their employees, and ultimately better serve their customers.

A2: In 2023 we will start to see Generative AI being used for real, and we may not like it. E.g. we may see new, super-potent phishing powered by Generative AI. Imagine receiving phishing emails that sound convincingly like they're coming from your boss or a colleague. #eWEEKChat

@crosby_justine So globalization is now permanently trending lower?

A2: Most analysts think the flash/disk cutover is still several years out, but my prediction is that, outside of hyperscale cloud providers, new flash capacity will get within striking distance of new HDD capacity in 2023 - especially with NAND prices expected to decline.

A2 – Budgets and cost containment will shift to being the key driver for most projects. I hear a recession is on the horizon.

@dscottcastle chatbots are tricky. IT ppl feel they minimize their role. But AI assisted search seems to be taking off

Nobody wants to deal with servers anymore. #Serverless will continue to progress and even accelerate. Dealing with servers, even if they are virtual, will start to feel antiquated.

A2: The continuation of AI/ML into mainstream everyday living. It will impact most jobs across most industries. Chatbots are opening eyes to possibilities. Not all change will be welcome

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A2. IT/Networking teams will begin to thin out, and there is little help on the horizon. The Great Reshuffling has left a lot of companies already looking at how they replace talent. The work-from-home phenomenon means that the tech giants can hire from anywhere.

@petermattis Agree completely.

@RobertBlumofe Interesting. Doesn't sound like fun for IT & security teams

A2. What used to be local monopolies on talent in non-silicon-valley places is now a fertile recruiting ground for cloudscale companies with a desire to lower their costs.

@JamesMaguire A recent ABB survey found that 70% of executives in the U.S. and Europe plan to reshore or nearshore to address supply chain issues.

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A2. And of course there is an aging contingent of network engineers born in the late 90s and now rapidly approaching retirement. Today, people are majoring in cloud, not vendor-specific networking. And that means teams will need to recruit folks with different skills.

That's the beauty of cloud.

A2. Much like my answer to Q1, now that generative AI solutions like ChatGPT are out in the world, I think we'll see many services interacting with or monitoring these applications. Someone has to make sure that students are still writing their own papers after all

A2: SQL workloads will explode as more NLP and other ML applications generate SQL. While data analysts and scientists continue to uncover insights using SQL, increasingly we’ll see apps that “speak SQL”, driving a lot of compute!

@Benaroni We're seeing that too, hence a push for #AI and automation. and NaaS

(Q2) Our assumptions about open source are going to be turned on their head. We have assumed it is cheap/free, and increasingly secure supply chain concerns (including legislation in both the US and EU) will change that.

@hollandcbarry It is amazing how fast we turned from growth at all costs, to cost-effective growth. Cost will definitely be a continuing trend in 2023.

@Trentf_CA Won't be fun for any of us.

@rjworobel Yep, chatbots will continue to proliferate in IT/networking to help netops teams. Chatbots ain't just for end customer support anymore.

A2: increased scrutiny on the "SaaS Metrics" model that has not seen a major update since the popularization of the cloud model 10+ years ago. What are the actual leading indicators to how profitable a cloud company can be?

(Q2) This change to the cost of open has been coming for a while, so in some sense it won’t be shocking, but it’s still going to be a hard challenge for a lot of orgs—because open underpins *everything*.

@Trentf_CA We see all the time that a company calls us up and says they're best couple of IT people just got hired by a hyperscaler - HELP!

@Benaroni Agree. And I think this opens the door for more investment in monitoring and AIOps tools to offset the loss of people in those roles #observability

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@Benaroni You need deep pockets to compete for IT labor!

A2: An R&D and staffing race to develop and sell niche AI software that creates labor efficiencies.