The adoption of IoT platform will be the foremost IT development trend in 2018

Smart object storage, analytics and artificial intelligence, as well as the full scaling of agile methods across the enterprise, will be key trends for the coming year

Beijing, December 28, 2017 - Hitachi Vantara recently unveiled its key business and technology trends that the company believes will be prevalent in the Asia Pacific region by 2018. These developments are led by Hubert Yoshida, CTO of the company, and Russell, CTO of APAC Skingsley predicted together.

Among the many trends, adoption of the Internet of Things (often referred to as IoT) platform will undoubtedly dominate the enterprise IT strategy in 2018. Yoshida and Skingsley jointly identified the top ten trends in the technology market for 2018 in the Asia Pacific region.

1: IT will use the Internet of Things platform to promote the use of IoT solutions

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, which provide valuable insights to support digital transformation, are rapidly becoming a key strategic measure in almost every industry and market segment IT must work closely with business operations to focus on specific business needs and define what IoT projects range.

"Building an IoT solution that delivers real value is not easy," says Yoshida, "and the business must have the right infrastructure and deep understanding of the business in order to accurately simulate and digitize the operating entities and processes. IoT platforms and experienced service providers are essential. "

Skingsley added: 'Businesses should choose IoT platforms based on an open, flexible architecture that simplifies integration with related technologies and provides a scalable foundation for building applications across a wide range of industries, allowing companies to design quickly and easily Build, test, and deploy applications. '

2: object storage intelligence

Businesses have embarked on a digital transformation this year, but the first issue they encountered was data access capabilities, with data often locked in silos that made extraction and use expensive, all of which were used for specific purposes and were not shared Many silos contain duplicate, outdated or no longer used data due to changes in business processes or ownership.

Skingsley commented: 'Data scientists tell us that 80% of the work that gets analytic insights from the data is tedious work of getting and preparing data. The concept of a data lake is tempting, but you can not just pour it down Into a system, the data must be properly cleaned, formatted and indexed, or tagged with metadata so that the data lake can sense the stored content, otherwise it will eventually become a swamp of data.

Although object storage is capable of storing a large number of unstructured data and provides metadata management and search capabilities, it lacks context awareness and object storage can now be "intelligent" by using software, able to search and read more Structured and unstructured data silos and analyzed to clean up, format, and index.

Skingsley said: "The Hitachi Content Intelligence (HCI) content intelligence management tool extracts data from silos and injects it into the workflow to be processed in a variety of ways." Organizations can authorize Content Intelligence content-smart users to Sensitive content can only be viewed by stakeholders without violating document security controls Content Intelligence builds a standard and consistent enterprise search process for the entire IT environment by linking and aggregating across heterogeneous data silos and locations Structured data and extract, grade, improve, and categorize all data for an organization.

3: Analysis and Artificial Intelligence

As companies begin to make significant returns from their investments, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) will see full growth by 2018. IDC notes that by the end of 2017 one-third of Fortune 500 companies had information Revenue from chemical products will double the rest of the product and service mix.

Skingsley said: "Artificial Intelligence has become the mainstream technology for consumer products such as Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, Hitachi Vantara that artificial intelligence and human cooperation will be able to bring tangible benefits to society as a whole. Through Pentaho Data Integration and other tools , Our goal is to popularize data engineering and data science processes and make machine intelligence (a combination of machine learning and artificial intelligence) more accessible to a wide range of developers and engineers. "

To achieve this goal, Pentaho provides powerful machine learning orchestration capabilities, integrates languages ​​such as R and Python, and machine learning technologies such as Spark MLlib Hitachi Vantara's IoT platform Lumada enables scalable IoT machine learning , Which provides flexible input and output, plus Lumada also standardized the join to automatically configure and manage resources and is compatible with machine-learning languages ​​such as Python, R and Java.

4: Video analysis is more widely used

Video content analysis will be the third eye for greater insight, productivity and efficiency in more areas, including public safety Advanced algorithms automatically detect and identify time, space, and relational events and interact with The combination of other IoT information, such as mobile GPS and social media feeds, will deliver important benefits for a wide range of businesses including retail, healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, education and entertainment.

Yoshida believes that video offers unique capabilities such as self-mobility (three-dimensional motion for autonomous robotic navigation), behavioral analysis, and other forms of situational awareness.

Yoshida said: "Retailers are using video to analyze customer browsing patterns and retention times to determine where products are placed and where buyers are located to maximize sales. Video analytics relies on superior video input so it can Requires the use of video enhancement technologies such as noise reduction, image stabilization, masking and ultra-high resolution, etc. Video analytics may require further exploration in terms of ease of use, return on investment and generation of actionable insights.

5: Agile methods in the enterprise fully expanded

Digital transformation is designed to help businesses become more efficient and collaborative to get more important business results faster, and more IT departments are beginning to adopt agile methods to do so.

For years of operation, the IT department left a large number of isolated islands of servers, networks, storage, databases, virtualization, and today's cloud management processes, all of which need to be replicated across all of these islands to achieve the desired In fact, many people think that IT is more focused on IT outcomes than on business outcomes.

Skingsley said: 'Even if data centers use technology to create shared data repositories to break data silos, the different capabilities are still focused on individual goals rather than on overall business goals, and by building an iterative Agile Sprint with 2 to 4 weeks cross-functional team that sprint plans, IT can focus on relevant business outcomes and deliver such results more efficiently.

Under the leadership of chief information officer Renee McKaskle, Hitachi Vantara has been using agile methods to drive digital transformation for the past two years with significant results.

Yoshida said: 'The Agile approach gives us a flexible approach that allows small, cross-functional teams to iterate through short-term spurs based on clear directions and strategic milestones to ensure that the entire organization is consistent and effective in its communications and Focusing on problem solving and achieving our common business goals. "He also pointed out that with the adoption of agile methods in business, more and more companies in 2018 will adopt agile methods and develop operational concepts in software development.

6: Data Governance 2.0

Companies will face new challenges in data governance and new frameworks need to be implemented in 2018. The biggest challenge will come from the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), which give EU citizens more personal data control The regulation will push costs up and increase the risk of collecting and storing personal data, violating the GDPR may be subject to a fine of up to 21.17 million U.S. dollars or a fine of 4% of the world's total turnover for the previous fiscal year .

Skingsley commented: 'Historically, data governance has been based on data and metadata processing. New data governance must now consider the data context. Companies must be able to find data on specific individuals, delete data, and certify users if they request to delete their own data. The 72-hour compulsory non-compliance notification also means that businesses face extremely short response windows, and businesses will not be able to meet this requirement if the data is scattered among different application silos and can not overwrite the data stored on mobile devices or the cloud. In years, companies will need to update their data governance framework to include content intelligence tools.

7: Containers help migrate to higher levels of virtualization

Container-based virtualization is the latest virtualization technology that will gain broader acceptance by 2018. Virtual machines (VMs) often require the abstracting of the entire device that contains the operating system.As a new generation of virtual machines, containers will contain only applications and applications All the required relevance.

Yoshida added: 'The lightweight nature of containers means that they do not need to have a dedicated operating system for each container, which can help businesses significantly reduce costs.The open configuration also means that they can run on many platforms and allow applications to interact with each other Separation runs for added security One-chip applications can be written as micro services and run in containers for increased flexibility, scale, and reliability.

Businesses are migrating and developing new applications with containers to be more competitive in today's agility and efficiency-setting markets As an enterprise we have built Lumada, the IoT platform, on containers and microservices and are passing Take full advantage of the benefits of migrating our management software for Pentaho employee nodes, Hitachi Content Intelligence and Hitachi Infrastructure Director to containers.Visual Storage Operating System (SVOS) for Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) also offers a plug-in, Used to provide persistent VSP storage in containers, and we expect that many storage vendors will follow this trend next year. "

8: Blockchain projects will become more mature

Yoshida said the blockchain will be a hot spot in 2018 for two reasons:

The first is the use of cryptocurrencies, a stable currency widely recognized by countries and regions that have been severely affected by hyperinflation this year, Japan and Singapore have also said they will be issued in 2018 by banks The regulator manages a constant volume of cryptocurrencies, which consumers will be able to use for P2P payments, e-commerce and money transfers, which will lead many banks to the blockchain and establish the ability to manage encrypted currency accounts.

The second is the increasing use of blockchain in the financial sector for routine processes such as internal regulatory functions, the filing of customer documents and regulatory documents, etc. Interbank transfers through the blockchain ledger are also expected to be available by 2018 Expanded, other industries will begin to see prototypes with smart contracts and identity services for areas such as healthcare, government, food safety and counterfeiting.

9: biometric authentication is the time

Given the growing number of passwords consumers need today, this situation will also drive the industry toward biometric authentication in 2018.

Skingsley pointed out: 'In real life, many people use the same password for accounts that they do not consider important, and unfortunately hackers know it too, so once they find out the password, they use it to successfully crack other accounts. Businesses have come to realize that agents acting for us, such as passwords, ATM cards, and personal identification numbers, can be cracked even with dual identity authentication.

Smartphone manufacturers and financial companies are gradually addressing this issue by using biometrics that represent real users, but choosing the right biometrics is important. If biometrics such as fingerprints are cracked, there is no way to resemble Personal identification number or password reset biometric because we have left fingerprints on everything touched, it is conceivable that someone may pick up our fingerprints and re-use.Hitachi recommends the use of finger vein, it is only in infrared light It is the most difficult to counterfeit technology when it is caught by the active finger to capture the veins.

10: Together to create value

Traditional business thinking assumes that producers value propositions autonomously through the selection of products and services Consumers often participate passively in the process of creating solutions and values ​​through market research, and Yoshida believes that in 2018 we will witness the value creation paradigm The producer-centric solution to the value creation model will withdraw from the arena and we will be turning to the common creation of value models.

Yoshida commented: 'Producers and consumers will no longer be able to use this traditional method of value creation in the digital world, where the pace of change is endless, the problems span multiple areas, blur the industry and Border.Producers can not spend years developing a solution and consumers can no longer plan their business on multi-year roadmaps that may not be able to meet their needs.If consumers and producers are to innovate, they must all work together Create (co-creators) who actively participate in the value creation process. '

Hitachi believes that co-creation is the process of collaborating with customers and ecosystem vendors in order to innovate and create new value for business stakeholders, customers and the community as a whole. Hitachi has been sticking with many customers for many years to create and has developed A co-creation method is expected to achieve large-scale promotion by 2018.

About Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara is dedicated to leveraging data-driven solutions to help businesses discover and capitalize on the business value of data warehousing, smart innovation, and business and social benefits. We combine technology, intelligence, and industry expertise to deliver data management solutions To help businesses optimize the customer experience and develop new business benefits while reducing operational costs.Only Hitachi Vantara is able to seamlessly integrate information technology (IT), operational technology (OT) and industry experience to enhance the customer's innovation advantage and engage with global businesses Work together to leverage data for superior value. For more information, visit: HitachiVantara.com.

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