Wikibon's annual Predictions webinar discussed 13 predictions across digital business, IoT, AI, big data, AppDev, cloud, and future systems architecture.
6. GDPR Reshuffles Data Governance – and Brands
• GDPR mandates data governance rules and
practices
• New role:The Data Protection Officer (DPO)
• Example: pittance fines for data breaches in
the US; $160B in fines under GDPS
• New bills being introduced in US Congress, but
GDPR will be strictest privacy regime for a
while.
Wikibon Prediction.The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into full effect 28 May
2018 and will catalyze changes far beyond the EU’s borders. As many as 15% of global enterprises will adopt GDPR
practices globally, especially those firms that operate mainly in B2B markets. By 2023, privacy and trust will be
explicit features of B2B brands.
GDPR
7. The Rise of the CDigiO
• Major theCUBE topic in 2017
• Titles and roles remain fluid; GDPR and
shareholder scrutiny will force more structure
• CDigiO works with (for?) COO to define and
operationalize
• Strategic digital capabilities
• Crucial data flows
• Data monitization schemes
COO CDigiO
CISO CIO CDO/DPO CTO CPO
Wikibon Prediction.The Chief Digital Officer (CDigiO) gains operational traction in business. Starting out largely as
a strategy role, the executive suite begins to entrust more operational responsibility to the CDigiO. In 2018, 10% of
enterprises will position the CDigiO above the CIO (technology), CISO (security), CDO (data and records), and CPO
(protection and privacy). By 2022, that figure will grow to 40%-50%.
9. Network Costs Impact Edge Data Choices
• IoT and “edge analytics” increasingly are
synonyms.
• Today’s data exhaust may be tomorrow’s data
platinum.
• Latency is fixed, bandwidth costs are not.
• Lots of politics in front of us (lobbying, OT/IT),
but bandwidth pricing will shape IoT data
reduction requirements.
Wikibon Prediction. IoT buzz will reach the realization that network costs are 3-5X greater than hardware costs. In
fact, IoT hardware costs will be a secondary consideration in building out an instrumented network. Large hardware
providers will not be prime differentiators. In 2018, we see Amazon and Google positioning as leaders in providing
communication alternatives to the existing common carriers, with a build-out of the networks by 2020.
10. Autonomous Edge Drives Bespoke AI
• “If software is eating the world, the biggest
bites are taken at the edge.”
• When latency dictates autonomy, ”learning by
doing” is the primary option for intelligent
devices.
• Will have far-reaching impacts on AppDev,
profoundly impacting practices related to
access to data sources, testing, validation, etc.
Wikibon Prediction. Autonomous edge devices, powered by AI-infused componentry that are trained through
reinforcement learning, are becoming ubiquitous. By year-end 2018, more than 25 percent of enterprise AI
application-development projects will involve autonomous edge devices and that, by that time, more than 50
percent of enterprise AI developers will have gained familiarity with reinforcement learning tools and techniques.
12. Data Scientists Do More Data Science
• As data science disciplines mature, the
masters are separating from the minions.
• Data science tools are codifying “master”
practices.
• Won’t diminish the value of real data science,
but
• May diminish some of the esteem.
• Will increase specialization – especially best
practices in horizontal and vertical domains.
• The best and brightest data scientists still
gravitate to digital giants and start-ups.
Wikibon Prediction.The general availability of ML and AI tools will tend to demystify the practice and also
deprecate the lofty position that data scientists occupied for a short time. However, organizations engaged in true
data science and research & development of fundamental AI algorithms will drive the progression of the discipline.
The 80% data scientist (80% wrangling data, 20% doing data science) will see a near reversal in 2018.
13. Big Data Open Source Consolidation
Wikibon Prediction.Vendors of big data open source software are going to start consolidating through mergers and
roll-ups in 2018.
Kafka Streams
Spark, Flink
NoSQL
NewSQL
Microservice
Ingest Process Analyze ServePredict
Compute
Storage
Kafka
Splice Machine, Snappy Data, MemSQL, Snowflake
Kudu, Cassandra, Redis, Iguazio
15. Exploiting AI in Applications
Wikibon Prediction. In 2018 leading-edge enterprises will realize that the scarcity of data science talent means they
can’t build models and applications from scratch. Rather, they will have shift from building models to leveraging
public cloud vendors’ pre-trained models via developer-ready APIs.
16. Automation Impacts Development,Too
• AppDev tedium remains the quality enemy
and morale killer.
• AI-related technologies can be applied to
AppDev productivity challenges.
• Not a silver bullet, but:
• Developers will factor AI-support in tool
selection.
• AI-enhanced development tools will
catalyze adoption of AI tooling and services
for business app domains.
Wikibon Prediction. Auto-programming will become a centerpiece of enterprise application development. By year-
end 2018, the latest auto-programming techniques – including machine learning (ML) and robotic process
automation (RPA) – will be incorporated into the top tier integrated development environments (e.g., MSFT Azure,
IBM Bluemix).
17. Serverless, Developer More
• Who needs (to know about) infrastructure?
• Benefits
• Scale and speed
• Agile-friendly
• DevOps-friendly
• Cheaper to move function than data,
especially at the edge.
Wikibon Prediction. Functional methods will become the mainstream approach for building lightweight cloud
microservices. By year-end 2018, more than 50 percent of new microservices deployed in public cloud will be
deployed in serverless environments. However, due to the embryonic adoption of serverless, on-premises
platforms, fewer than 10 percent of new functional code-builds in private clouds will use functional code.
19. True Private Cloud Makes Data Happy
Wikibon Prediction. Increasingly, the mantra for cloud architects will be, “The cloud experience, where the data
demands,” and data “demands” will be defined largely by latency, costs, data governance, and IP protection.True
Private Cloud (TPC) technologies will gain increasing favor, growing larger than the public IaaS market by 2024.
20. Multi-Cloud? Naturally
Wikibon Prediction. Digital
businesses are pursuing a wide
array of outcomes that will be
impossible to handle within single-
source public clouds. Multi-cloud
will be a feature of almost all
enterprise digital business
strategies. Kubernetes is emerging
as the key technology for
managing multi-cloud workflows.
By 2020, 60% of developer teams
building and sustaining multi-
cloud, enterprise applications will
use Kubernetes, making
Kubernetes the leading foundation
for multi-cloud ecosystems.
Public
CSP
SaaS
SaaS
Public
CSP
True
Private
Cloud
True
Private
Cloud
Edge
Edge
Data
Center
Data
Center
Data
Center
21. NVMe-oF Impact On System Architectures
Wikibon Prediction. NVMe-oF is a key component of a new architecture and disaggregation of storage and
networking. In 2018, NVMe-oF will be written into most RFPs for scalable hardware. Longer term, the journey to
replace SCSI completely has started, with main migration between 2019-2022, and five more years to completely
turn the storage product installed base.
22. Rapid Adoption of AI for ITOM
Wikibon Prediction. 2018 will be the year that IT Operations and Application Performance Management becomes
the first high-volume, horizontal application of machine learning.
End-to-EndVisability,
More False Positives
On Root Causes
23. Action Items
• “Digital business = data assets” notion diffusing rapidly.
• Start preparing for even more business scrutiny over technology
management.
• Data indicates technology directions across the board.
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