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Telecom & Media, Hitachi Vantara, 2018 will bring new
technology trends that will begin to change the entire Today, digital transformation is the
experience of connecting and interacting with the key to success for enterprises, SMBs
internet. Some of these technology advancements are
in 5G networks, location based digital lifestyle spaces, and start-ups. At the centre of this
VR/AR, NFV, IoT, IIoT, and IoE. Consumers will be able transformation is data making data
to enjoy 1Gb speed to their phone, tablet, Smart Tv management the prime focus for a
allowing 4K multi-channel streaming, immersive VR
and AR, and new broadband services. IoT services for company’s IT strategy
consumer, enterprise, public, and first responder will
dominate the coming years for advancement of dynamic
location based experiences. Machine Learning sound to be promising technology
“We believe that next year enterprises will work trends; however the infrastructure and maintenance
towards harnessing opportunities created by integration costs are going to be the key deciding factors for their
of new technologies. We see a huge surge in the adoption implementation, especially in startups and SMEs. It’s
and usage of digital workspace technologies, which will also just the beginning for “FinTech” services, as more
create ripples in the earlier established organizational financial corporations are looking ahead for automated
structures. Therefore, workspace transformation is blockchain technologies in their industry processes.
inevitable and benefits far outweigh the transitional “Recognizing the need to properly manage
hurdles that might come up,” said Makarand Joshi , Area unprecedented data that’s being generated today,
Vice President & Country Head, India Subcontinent, NetApp recently expanded its Data Fabric solutions
Citrix. and services portfolio in India. As data becomes self-
According to Sanjai Gangadharan, Regional Director aware and diverse than it is today, the metadata will
SAARC, A10 Networks, AI will empower emerging make it possible for the data to proactively transport,
security technologies in 2018. The rise of commoditized categorize, analyze and protect itself in coming years.
machine learning capabilities and chat bots being built With data becoming incredibly dynamic and the ability
into just about every new product will allow for human and to transport it is getting more and more challenging, the
electronic intelligence to be combined more effectively. applications and resources needed to process it need to
Come next year, this will give security teams the ability be equally efficient. This will have implications on new
to assess and prioritize security vulnerabilities based architectures like edge, core, and cloud. At NetApp, our
on more than just a single label, thus offering deeper aim is to enable every customer to unleash their data’s
protection. full potential,” said Anil Valluri, President, NetApp India
Siddhartha Chatterjee, CTO, Persistent Systems & SAARC.
claims that the top five tech nology trends affecting “Technology, in particular has seen a facelift year after
enterprises in 2018 will be: year. In the e-governance space, the concept of ‘paper
l Increased focus on enterprise security; work’ will go down drastically. Even now, most of the
l The rise of automation and self-service; work is done and stored online on cloud based services
l Across-the-board adoption of data science and which eliminates the problem of limited storage. This
machine learning; wipes out the possibility of misplacing files and their
l Richer human-machine interaction modalities (inclu- retrieval becomes supremely easy.
ding voice, touch, gesture, and augmented reality); and Even linking one’s Aadhaar to the bank account would
l Cloud platforms as delivery vehicles for software and smoothen the process of making payments. This would
services. mean making payments using just your fingerprints. The
Today, digital transformation is the key to success for ‘ease’ of doing things, is what is taking the whole concept
enterprises, SMBs and start-ups. At the centre of this forward,” added Ankit Agarwal, MD, Alankit Ltd.
transformation is data making data management the In this era of endless innovation, we have to wait and
prime focus for a company’s IT strategy. see what future has in store. The one thing we are sure of
Aniketh Jain, CEO & Co-Founder of Solutions Infini is that future will look different from today and definitely
Pvt. Ltd. said that although Artificial Intelligence and more efficient.

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