NETAPP PREDICTIONS 2022 Attributed to: Matthew Hurford, VP, Solutions Engineering & Field CTO, Asia Pacific, NetApp.
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he evolution of technology is constant, driving organisations to continually invest in digital transformation initiatives. Where will the technology evolution lead in 2022? Below are the top technology trends and predictions by NetApp that will gain momentum in 2022 and beyond as the digital transformation accelerates.
“DIGITAL FIRST” AS NEW BUSINESS PARADIGM “While IT teams and IT leaders are historically called on to drive digitisation and increase value, the roles will be reversed in the postpandemic world. At NetApp, we
believe that Digital Transformation will continue to drive strategic decision-making as more enterprises gain a keener insight into its own operational rhythms and data fabric from any of its office across the globe. We see this, for example, in business analytics, where the analysis of user experience journeys become a crucial information source for realtime strategic decisions. We believe that the increasing convergence between digital and analog worlds will result in ‘digital-twin’ concepts being more widely adopted among enterprise. By harnessing this ‘digital-first’ paradigm, enterprises will be able to truly embrace agile developments, test processes
and respond to feedback virtually, even before concepts are being considered for rollout on a larger scale.”
CYBERSECURITY AND RESILIENCY “The pandemic has forced a hybrid workforce, and the past two years have triggered a rapid increase in ransomware attacks as with millions of endpoints connecting to the networks, opening up a multitude of new infection vectors. Companies are facing more threats to their data and ultimately their business than ever before. Accenture’s State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2021 report found that there were on average
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