The Future Of Corporate IT - What Will it Look Like?

 


We have seen Corporate America change drastically in the last few years, having to deal with a worldwide pandemic that teetered on shutting down entire industries. The way we do business today does not look like it did five years ago, it looks drastically different. We have gone from largely in-person work places to a more hybrid, or in some cases, entirely remote work spaces. Five years ago, the mere idea of this seemed very unlikely and hard to imagine, until, we as a world, had to adapt and make this new reality work for the good of humanity. Face-to-face interactions and meetings have become screen-to-screen, remote interactions. In this new age in technology, I predict the future of corporate IT to look completely different than it did five years ago.

Because of this large shift in how we do business, corporate IT had to make some big changes in order to support this new reality. What will this new future look like? According to Michelle Zatlyn (Co-founder and COO at Cloudflare), “The hybrid work model has accelerated a huge shift from legacy, on premises hardware to cloud-based services that can power and secure the work-from-anywhere economy.” Sanjay Poonen (COO at VMware) states that, “IT will need to be flexible, smart, and secure. Enterprises need to be able to run, manage, connect, and secure any application, on any cloud, anywhere in the world.” Finally, Abby Kearns (CTO at Puppet) believes that, “Edge technologies will change the way we think about data: how we use, access, exploit, and leverage it to scale and grow our businesses. The work being done currently with automation will eventually lead to a hybrid estate that includes on-prem/private cloud, public cloud, and the edge,” (McAllister, 2022). 

According to Capers, 2021, 10 predictions for the future of IT include:

  1. 98% of business data will be cloud-based rather than stored in traditional company data centers
  2. Cloud computing models such as: SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS will give way to a boundless Everything-as-a-service (XaaS) dynamic model
  3. IT networks will be optimized for business continuity and resiliency to better support risk management, cybersecurity, and the near total adoption of remote work
  4. 5G networks will evolve to deliver low-latency, high-bandwidth connections to power the advanced Internet of Things (IoT) and twin digital platforms (China is currently building out the first 6G networks!)
  5. Advanced edge computing will provide real-time local data-processing, enhancing the IoT systems, while reducing the network traffic in the cloud
  6. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will be common in many business environments including warehouses and employee training programs
  7. Data analytics will be obtained from increasingly diverse sources, strengthening predictive analytics, improving machine learning algorithms, and informing nearly all decision making
  8. Advances in AI, automation, and robotics will significantly improve efficiency and productivity at the expense of roles in areas such as data entry, customer service, and manufacturing.
  9. Unified endpoint management platforms will monitor all network endpoints from a single interface, markedly improving cybersecurity and network visibility
  10. Most industrialized countries will enact comprehensive federal data privacy laws

The future of IT will look completely different than it does today. Keeping up with the latest technologies and continuing to innovate and find better, more effective, efficient, and secure ways to do business will hopefully help drive us towards a future that we can only dream about today. These new technologies can help bring us closer together, develop new medical discoveries, reverse the effects of climate change, and protect those who need it the most. 

References

Capers, Z. (2021, November 30). 10 predictions for the future of it and the management strategies that will follow. GetApp. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://www.getapp.com/resources/future-of-it/

McAllister, K. (2022, July 22). The Emerging Technology for Enterprise Computing's next five years. Protocol. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://www.protocol.com/braintrust/emerging-technology-in-enterprise-computing?rebelltitem=6#rebelltitem6


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