Trend One: Technology Sustainability
Environmental, social and governance aspects
In particular, Centers will become more effectivedata processing (data center). Today, servers, cooling and power systems for legacy equipment consume 40% of electricity. Companies will implement more efficient cooling methods, air filtration, and co-locate data centers to reduce costs. Ineffective centers will leave the market.
The problem of “electronic waste” is also acute.— any garbage containing electronic devices, chips and other parts. Often - with increased levels of toxic substances. In three years, after the launch of the waste management reform, Russian enterprises doubled the volume of electrical waste recycling - to almost 80,000 tons, TASS writes. For comparison, this is how much more than 3,000 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft weigh. According to experts, by 2030 in Russia it will be possible to recycle 15–20% of this waste.
For various reasons, companies will continuepay attention to the sustainable development agenda, that is, energy conservation, social policy and good governance. Artificial intelligence will help them, including offering solutions to optimize energy consumption and waste reuse.
Trend two: the development of wireless technologies
By 2025, 50% of enterprise wirelessdevices such as electricity meters and equipment wear sensors will use network services with additional capabilities beyond communications, Gartner predicts. In healthcare there will be even more devices for monitoring the condition of patients, in transport - coordination of movement and traffic. Today there are no more than 15% of such devices. From a data transmission tool, wireless communication will turn into a multi-technological environment and will be used to determine the state of the environment and transmit electricity.
Determination technologies are evolvinglocating people in distress, monitoring workers at sites and ensuring their safety. Communication will come to the most inaccessible settlements. The latest wireless systems do not require energy-intensive networks and batteries, so the problem of providing them with electricity will not be an acute problem.
Against this background, new options will appear on the marketuses of wireless communications: vehicle coordination, multicasting and new methods of information delivery for media, forecasts Stefanini NA.
Trend three: Internet of things in production
New technologies will also change large industrialcompanies connect the Internet of things, cloud computing and analytics, use artificial intelligence and machine learning. Manufacturing operations data is combined with operational data from supply chain ERP, customer service and other enterprise systems. Manufacturing companies gain new levels of visibility and understanding of disparate information and are listed in IBM.
The impact of implementation is tangible: equipment downtime is reduced by 30–50%, productivity increases by 10–30%, and forecasting accuracy is up to 85%, according to McKinsey analysts.
Factories are becoming digital and are able to completely manage the entire production and sales cycle on a computer.
The Internet of Things is penetrating other industries.The University of Huddersfield has come up with a version of a baby blanket that uses sensors to read a baby's vital signs. They can be transferred both to the parents’ smartphone and to the nearest clinic in case of a life threat. One can easily imagine that Moscow children's clinics could be connected to such a system.
Trend Four: Strengthening cybersecurity
The development of any technology attractscybercriminals, if not for profit, then out of curiosity. The next goal is the Internet of Things: computers, phones, household devices, watches, and production machines are connected to one space and make it possible to connect to them remotely. By 2026, 64 billion items worldwide will be connected to the Internet of Things, Insider Intelligence estimates. This growth is also due to the number of remote workers around the world.
45% of all data leaks in the world occur incloud services - due to incorrectly configured parameters. They become the causes of data leaks and unauthorized access. As a result, the cost of an average breach in 2022 was $4.35 million, IBM and the Ponemon Institute summarize.
Companies that use artificialintelligence and automation saved an average of $3 million more than conservative non-technology companies. Advanced players are simply faster at identifying security breaches and repairing them. When working on cybersecurity, companies will increasingly use the DevOps methodology, which consists of the interaction of development specialists with information technology specialists. The methodology will help automate more and more new processes, build algorithms that will identify gaps in security systems.
Trend five: development of cloud technologies
More than 50% of enterprises will useindustry cloud platforms to accelerate their business initiatives by 2027, Gartner predicts. More and more companies will modernize, automate, and move to a variety of cloud services: business process services, application services, security services, infrastructure cloud services, desktop as a service, and so on. Against this background, clouds will become more accessible to all users, and their security will also increase.
At the same time, the industry will experience another shortagepersonnel: the development of new applications will require highly qualified employees, who are not easy to find even now. In addition, they all want high salaries, and businesses are experiencing inflationary pressure and are trying to save money. Companies may be able to find a balance thanks to the growing demand for cloud services.
All these technologies and trends are interconnected,influence each other. The development of cloud computing requires increased cybersecurity to protect the privacy and security of data stored in the cloud. The Internet of Things in manufacturing and wireless communication can be used to improve process efficiency and reduce energy costs, which contributes to the sustainable development of technology.
All these technologies and trends will change not onlybusiness models, but also people's lives, creating new opportunities for work, communication, entertainment and much more. The speed of development of the IT industry requires companies to respond quickly and flexibly to changing conditions and trends. Therefore, it is important for businesses to monitor and understand the development of innovations. Then companies can remain competitive.
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