EfficientIP: As Pandemic Reshapes Business, Leaders Need to Consider These 5 IT Predictions for 2021
The “new normal” will include digital transformations that will impact the success of ongoing remote work and education
EfficientIP, a leading provider of network security and automation solutions specializing in DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM), released five predictions for how the IT industry will develop in 2021. These predictions underscore how digital transformation will help businesses survive in an economy still wracked by the COVID-19 pandemic and negotiate a transition to a “new normal”.
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“But the volume and complexity of these operations is growing rapidly, so they have become error-prone and time-consuming. The success of 5G rollout therefore hinges on greater adoption of automation and orchestration by telcos.”
“Businesses should expect 2021 to accelerate many trends that we saw in 2020,” says Ronan David, VP of Strategy at EfficientIP. “The COVID-19 pandemic has given leaders no choice but to transform, both from organizational and societal viewpoints. If enterprises want to succeed, they need to rely more on edge computing and the cloud, which saw a huge boost last year, but they also need to invest more in automation and security.”
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EfficientIP’s predictions for IT trends are:
It’s a Race to the Edge
In 2021, edge computing–or moving network capabilities to more dispersed areas, closer to where people live and work–will continue to grow. This is aided by containers at the edge, which can offer computing resources closer to the end-user in order to vastly reduce latency and improve bandwidth. Cloud computing providers who want to differentiate themselves will look to offer their own edge solutions, as will 5G telcos who will deploy infrastructure for their network operation and prepare private slicing offers. Edge networking, edge computing and the adoption of containers as a resource-sharing capability offer real opportunities for adding more elasticity and dynamic scalability to physical and virtual machine capacities.
“As we think about edge, we should also think about DNS services at the edge,” David says. “It offers a number of benefits, including increased velocity and lowered response time, which can allow for new usages like communication between IoT devices for smart cities or utilities. This will enable so many other future capabilities.”
