- Company envisions the ways that digital transformation will face significant challenges from now and years to come, with the need for a broad ecosystem integrating public cloud and traditional infrastructure;
- 2022 will intensify conversations about trends in digital twins and quantum computing
In an online broadcast this Wednesday (27), Dell Technologies presented its vision on the trends that will shape the future of technology from 2022 onwards, with the participation of two of its main leaders: two of its main leaders.
John Roese, Global Chief Technology Officer, Dell Technologies
John Roese, Global Chief Technology Officer at Dell Technologies, was responsible for presenting his short and long term predictions of how the IT sector will provide platforms and capabilities to change people's lives by taking advantage of the exponential increase in data, while Luis Gonçalves, Latin America's Dell Technologies leader, who delivered an optimistic message about technology's ability to solve some of society's biggest challenges.
After two years in the midst of the crisis of a global pandemic, the market is slowly laying the groundwork for reconstruction and the transition to a technology-driven economic recovery is being made. Despite the challenges that Latin America still faces, the projections — for the most part — show economic growth in the region.
“As we seek to achieve a more equitable economic and social recovery to live in this hybrid world, it is imperative that we continue on this path of access to connectivity, and realize its enormous potential, overcoming key challenges such as cybersecurity, regional regulatory frameworks, the need to increase the coverage of access to internet services and the development of digital skills that allow the appropriation and use of infrastructure and digital solutions to improve the quality of life of citizens”, said Gonçalves.
The trends that will be highlighted in 2022
Presented by John Roese, Dell Technologies' short-term and long-term forecasts for 2022 onwards address how the IT industry will provide the platforms and capabilities to harness the exponential growth of data and transform our lives. The seven main trends will be:
- Edge Computing with new focus areas:
The discussion of Edge Computing will shift to two areas of focus: the platforms that will securely empower the ecosystem and the corresponding software-defined workloads that will allow application and data systems to be extended to the edge. “If this approach doesn't happen, there will be chaos in this critical part and inevitably our computing future will be affected. This is because cloud-born companies cannot stretch to the limit without the help of the right infrastructure,” said Roese.
- Private Mobility:
The forecast is for an accelerating opening of the ecosystem, with more industries embracing the cloud and IT involved on the path to 5G. Today, 5G is not significantly different or better than Wi-Fi in most corporate use cases, but that will change in 2022 as more modern and powerful versions of 5G become available to businesses.
- Data management:
Edge Computing will become the new 'battleground' for data management as data management becomes a new category of workload. Currently, data processing, analysis and management is done in centralized and real-time data, but Edge is gaining more relevance in this regard. “At Dell Technologies, we have a unique opportunity to provide a single orchestration tool capable of working at the edge in on-premises centers and cloud deployments, and thus achieve a complete and competitive common data analysis and management strategy,” added John Roese. .
- Safety:
The market will have to move from concern to action on cyber threats. Businesses and governments face increasingly sophisticated threats with greater impact on revenue and services. At the same time, the attack surface of hackers is growing due to the expansion of remote work and digital transformation. As a result, the security industry is working not only on automated detection, but also on attack prevention and response. Applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to increase reaction and remediation speed. “These four areas (Edge Computing, Private Mobility, Data Management and Security) raise the need for the integration of public and private cloud-based systems. Our IT system is distributed in a multi-cloud world, so all these new challenges need to be solved regardless of where the systems are being deployed.”
Beyond 2022:
Other forecasts show trends that will have their conversations intensified for 2022, with applications in the following years:
- Quantum Computing
By 2022, Dell Technologies projects that the industry will realize that the inevitable topology of a quantum system will be a hybrid quantum computer.
In this way, quantum hardware or quantum processing units (PUUs) are specialized computing systems that look like accelerators and focus on specific quantum-centric math and functions. The QPU will be surrounded by conventional computer systems to pre-process the data, run the overall process, and interpret the QPU's output.
The first real-world quantum systems are following this hybrid quantum model and “the collaboration of classical and quantum computing will spread”, highlights the expert. Furthermore, quantum simulation using conventional computing will be the most cost-effective and affordable way to make quantum systems available to our universities, data scientists and researchers.
- Automotive:
The automotive ecosystem will quickly shift focus from a mechanical ecosystem to a data and computing industry. “We are seeing a shift from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles that results in a radical simplification of the physical supply chain. In addition, we have seen a significant expansion of software and computer content inside our cars through ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and autonomous vehicle efforts. Finally, it is a fact that the automotive industry is becoming a data-driven industry for everything from entertainment and safety to major disruptions like Car-as-a-Service and automated delivery,” said Roese.
This tells us that the automotive and transportation industries are starting a rapid transition to being driven by software, computing and data. We've already seen this in other industries, such as telecoms and retail, and in all cases the result is increased consumption of IT technology.
In this regard, the executive highlighted that “Dell Technologies is actively engaged with most of the world's leading automotive companies in their first efforts, and we expect that in 2022 it will continue its evolution towards digital transformation and deep interaction with IT ecosystems. ”
- Digital twins:
While gaining ground, digital twins are still an early technology, with few real examples in production. Over the next few years, they will become easier to create and use as we define standardized frameworks, solutions, and platforms. They will enable companies to provide enhanced analytics and predictive models to accelerate digital transformation 3.0. They will be the center of the business to simulate changes and impacts mainly in the industrial sector.
“As a technology optimist, I increasingly see a world where humans and technology work together to deliver impactful results at unprecedented speed. These short-term and long-term perspectives are based on the progress we are making today. If we see incremental improvement, there is a huge opportunity to positively transform the way we work, live and learn, and 2022 will be another year of accelerated innovation and technology adoption, concluded the global CTO of Dell Technologies.
