Cloud services are infrastructure, platforms, or software that are hosted by third-party providers and made available to users through the internet. 

Cloud services facilitate the flow of user data from front-end clients (like users, servers, tablets, desktops, laptops anything on the user ends), through the internet, to the provider’s systems, and back. Users can access cloud services with nothing more than a computer, operating system, and internet connectivity or virtual private network (VPN).

Cloud Services Types

  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provides users with compute, networking, and storage resources.
  • Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides users with a platform on which applications can run, as well as all the IT infrastructure required for it to run.
  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provides users with essentially a cloud application, the platform on which it runs, and the platform’s underlying infrastructure.
  • Function-as-a-Service (FaaS), an event-driven execution model, lets developers build, run, and manage app packages as functions without maintaining the infrastructure.

Latest and Trending technologies in the IT Industry

Technology is evolving rapidly, Identifying and investing time in upskilling yourself with the Latest/Trending Technologies attracting the future market and impacting our everyday lives is much needed.

Internet of Behaviors (IoB)

The Internet of Behaviors (IoB) is an area of research and development (R&D) that seeks to understand how, when and why humans use technology to make purchasing decisions. IoB is considered one of the top tech trends for the year 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic is mainly responsible for IoB becoming this trend since it has transformed how consumers connect with brands, causing businesses to rethink how they communicate with customers. IoB combines three fields of study: behavioral science, edge analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). IoB platforms are designed to gather, aggregate and analyze data generated from a wide variety of sources, including household digital devices, wearable computers and human online activities. The data is then analyzed in terms of behavioral psychology to look for patterns that can be used by marketing and sales teams to influence future consumer behavior. From a human psychology standpoint, the IoB idea aims to correctly analyze data and utilize that understanding to design and sell new goods

This new trend affects the Quality Infrastructure sometimes because various companies can Increase their connectivity, leading to higher customer expectations. The IoT translates data to information, and the IoB may translate our knowledge into genuine wisdom. An important goal of the IoB is to help marketers understand and monetize the massive amount of data produced by network nodes in the Internet of Things.

The Internet of Behaviors is expected to play an important role in e-commerce, health care, customer experience management (CXM) and search engine optimization (SEO).

Companies investing in IoB: AWS, Cisco, SAP, Microsoft, HP, IBM, Dell, Cloudera

DevSecOps

DevSecOps is short for development, security, and operations. Implements security at the same scale and speed as development and operations, with the wider adoption of Microservices, DevSecOps seems to find its way deeper into our DevOps market. DevSecOps operations model allows a business to be accessed, delivered and enabled anywhere. This format is now exploring various other aspects of technology like GitOps, DataOps & NoOps.

Companies investing in DevSecOps: Amazon, NASA, Capgemini, Dell, Oracle

Intelligent Process Automation

Robotic Process Automation is basically the idea that ‘Anything that can be automated, should be automated’. Intelligent Process Automation. IPA, in a nutshell, allows bots to benefit from the abilities of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning, meaning they can learn and improve over time. This helps these intelligent bots evolve from the ‘If-this-then-that’ rule. At its core, Intelligent Process Automation is the convergence of RPA and different Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to automate larger decision-based business processes that traditionally required an employee to intervene and execute.

The promise of Intelligent Process Automation is rooted in its ability to elevate automation to another degree of complexity, creating even more efficiency, operational cost reduction, agility, and better experiences all around.

Companies investing in IPA: KPMG, AWS, Microsoft

Tactile Virtual Reality

Innovative technologies offer more immersive experiences like AR and VR. Virtual Reality immerses the user in a simulated environment, Augmented Reality is an overlay of technology in the real world.

Touch gives us a deeper understanding of the things which cannot be fully experienced by sight or hearing. That is where Tactile Virtual Reality comes into play. It combines the use of several types of technologies including sensors, advanced optics, etc. bundled into a single device that provides the capability to overlay augmented digital content into your real-time space. With the advancement of Tactile/Haptic technology, the touch barrier can now be scaled.

Companies investing in Tactile VR: Oculus, Virtuix, Cisco

Big Data Analytics

Big Data Analytics has been there in the market for quite some time now. More and more businesses are adopting it to go beyond the traditional ways of data storage and processing. New trends such as X-Analytics are being used to find solutions to challenges, including climate change, disease prevention and wildlife protection. 

Big Data also gives us interesting trends like Decision Intelligence which provides a framework to help data engineers to design, model, execute and monitor decision models and processes in the context of business outcomes and behavior.

Companies investing in Big Data Analytics: Amazon, Netflix, Starbucks, Spotify, Google, Adobe

Human Augmentation

Humans have continually experimented with technology to enhance life as they know it. This curiosity has now entered another territory – Human Augmentation which basically means taking the help of technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things, to not only enhance our daily lives but also to take human intelligence to the next level.

Currently, the studies have been racing towards helping people with disabilities with bionics and prosthetic augmentation and curing sickness by experimenting with genes. But the promise is to end the existing physical disabilities or prevent injuries from happening at all.

It can also provide opportunities for other creative functions. For example, companies like Neural ink aim to build an incredibly powerful brain-machine interface, with the power to process magnanimous amounts of data.

Companies investing in Human Augmentation: Neuralink, Google, Samsung, Ekso

Everything-as-a-Service(XaaS)

Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) is a cloud computing term for the extensive variety of services and applications emerging for users to access on-demand over the Internet as opposed to being utilized via on-premises means. It gives you the flexibility to customize your computing environments to craft the experiences desired, all on-demand. XaaS has expanded to incorporate many services such as:

  • Function-as-a-Service
  • IT-as-a-Service
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service
  • Security-as-a-Service
  • Database-aa-a-Service

As these applications become even more portable, compute cycles easier to procure in real-time, data integration platforms streamline connectivity, and vendors form cross-platform alliances, that multi-cloud trend might start looking more like an Omni-cloud one in the near future.

Companies investing in XaaS: HPC, RedHat, VMWare, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure

Cyber Security

With so many organizations undergoing huge digital transformations, awareness of the ongoing looming presence of cyberattacks continues to grow – not only for large organizations but also for small businesses. Now, Cybersecurity is nothing new but its trends definitely are!

  • Virtual Dispersive Network (VDN) is a unique approach to cybersecurity, wherein a signal is transmitted in short bursts or quantum packets, which can’t be covertly read without disrupting their content. Basically, no one can intercept data sent to you without introducing some noise in it. 
  • Blockchain Cybersecurity is a more modular, responsive security approach by centralizing orchestration and distributing enforcement.

It’s starting to dawn on companies that having an effective cybersecurity strategy is not just a luxury but an absolutely necessity.

Companies investing in Cybersecurity: CISCO, RedHat, IBM

Artificial Intelligence

A robust Artificial Intelligence implementation will facilitate the performance, scalability, and reliability while delivering the complete return on investments. But AI projects often face certain issues which makes them a challenge for most organizations. But there are new solutions fashioned to face these problems.

  • Artificial Intelligence Engineering offers to make AI a part of the mainstream DevOps process rather than a set of specialized and isolated projects. This solves issues with maintainability, scalability and governance.
  • Tiny AI aims to create algorithms to shrink existing deep-learning models without losing their capabilities, to pack more computational power into tighter physical spaces, and on far less energy. 

This revolutionary technology is all set to bring about another revolution and hence, is on our list of trending technologies.

Companies investing in AI:  Google, Apple, Amazon, IBM