Read our blog on the 5 IT Predictions for Digital Business in 2019: https://eqix.it/ITPredictions2019 While digital transformation has the potential to dramatically accelerate long-term business performance, the truth is that we are deep into the digital awkward years. Though the promise of digital is full of new possibilities, most companies are currently experiencing the growing pains of hybrid IT complexity. Today’s businesses see digital technologies that need to be seamlessly integrated with legacy IT infrastructures to optimize business processes, agility and scale. They anticipate an increasing number of connected-devices at the edge generating mountains of data that will expand their organization’s threat landscape, while data security and compliance requirements continue to increase. We are working with our customers around the globe to build the data center of the future, blazing the trail for next-generation interconnection and innovation, including emerging security, data and application infrastructure services. And as business and technology leaders move closer to another year of high stakes digital transformations and the big IT decisions that power them, we’re taking a closer look at the technologies that will make the biggest digital business impact in 2019.

1. PREDICTIONS
FOR IT
IN 2019

2. Tomorrow’s high-speed wireless networks will
accelerate today’s network transformation.
Enterprises will create infrastructures at the edge
to solve for cloud radio networks that will power
several radios through pools of virtualized network
software. This will lead to increased investments in
existing and new edge infrastructure, as well as
innovation in hardware and virtual wireless
networking stacks.
PAVING A
PATH TO THE
PROMISE OF 5G

3. The growing use of AI in business and society
will increase data usage exponentially. While
first-generation AI architectures have historically
been centralized, enterprises will enter the realm
of distributed AI architectures in 2019, where AI
model building and model inferencing will take
place at the local edge. AI innovation will also
be leveraged in multiple public clouds, further
decentralizing AI architecture.
RIDING THE RISE
OF DISTRIBUTED
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
ARCHITECTURES

4. 2018
185
Enterprises will start to participate in multiple
blockchain networks to simultaneously interact
with multiple blockchain ecosystems. The
resulting network of networks will spur new
opportunities for greater business security and
monetization. Blockchain performance will become
more important for applications requiring real-time
performance and linkage with data sources
“UN-BLOCKING”
THE CHAIN

5. Changing data protection laws and heightened
privacy concerns will inspire more progressive
and distributed security processes. Enterprises
and SaaS providers will consider new data
management techniques that operate seamlessly
on encrypted data as well as new hardware-based
virtualization technology that will prevent service
providers from surveilling their customers’ data.
MANEUVERING
THE DATA
PRIVACY MAZE

6. 2017
118
2018
185
*Compound Annual Growth Rate
Enterprises will struggle with expanding their
security perimeters, as well as integration and
management issues as they pursue hybrid
multicloud architectures. There will be a shift
towards enabling capabilities such as security,
analytics and data exchange in close proximity
to the cloud for seamless cross-border data flow,
and a preference for partnering with the right
interconnection partner to navigate through the
complexity of cloud.
TAPPING
INTERCONNECTION
TO TAME CLOUD
COMPLEXITY

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