Our sales and engineering teams at PTP have been busy over the last year listening to what our customers need and working with our strategic technology partners to deliver impactful solutions. This \u201cTop 10\u201d list from PTP was not written by a single person\u2014instead, this blog was crowdsourced by the entire PTP organization. We requested each individual to offer their own top 2 or 3 technologies that would make the most difference in 2020, consolidated the results without sharing anyone\u2019s answers, and tallied the results. This process avoids the groupthink phenomenon and provides the greatest amount of diversity.<\/p>\n
1) 5G Wireless<\/strong> \u2013 The 5G technology will affect businesses\u2019 decisions in how to provision and support remote sites. This new and developing mobile network technology will support speeds that are faster than many of the cheaper wired connections, and businesses will start to provision their remote sites with this as their primary connectivity option. There will be great savings in terms of wiring and hardware costs, especially for biotech and life sciences field operations that depend on speed and flexibility.<\/p>\n 2) Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence<\/strong> \u2013 An excerpt from a ZDNet article outlines the improvements made in decision making by AI versus humans in certain areas: \u201cAccording to Google, the model\u2019s results were better than radiologists from both countries. From reading scans of 3,000 women in the United States, the model produced a 5.7% reduction of false positives and a 9.4% reduction in false negatives. On 25,000 mammograms performed in the United Kingdom, the system reduced false negatives by 2.7% and false positives by 1.2%.\u201d This highlights how AI is becoming essential across life sciences, with major implications for IT infrastructure and compliance.<\/p>\n 3) Multi-Cloud & Inter-Cloud Networking<\/strong> \u2013 Cloud growth continues, and use of multiple clouds in larger deployments will as well. With multi-cloud comes network challenges and the need to address limitations, lack of visibility, and manual processes. Multi-cloud networking solutions are ready for prime time from vendors like Aviatrix\u2014and are increasingly relevant for managed cloud services for life sciences companies with distributed infrastructure.<\/p>\n 4) Cloud Growth and Migrations<\/strong> \u2013 With cloud adoption already mainstream, Gartner expects the cloud IaaS segment to grow 24% YoY. From the Gartner article: \u201cThis growth is attributed to the demands of modern applications and workloads, which require infrastructure that traditional data centers cannot meet.\u201d<\/p>\n There is much talk about cloud migration, but to truly accelerate the pace of migration, the assessment and TCO\/ROI analysis cost and time requirements need to be reduced. Most businesses are not going to blindly move to the cloud. They need to see hard numbers and be confident that moving to the cloud is the right financial decision. Helping these businesses through this process in a cost-effective manner will be critical to mass adoption of cloud services.<\/p>\n 5) SD-WAN<\/strong> \u2013 Evolution from hardware-based vendor solutions to cloud-based offerings, all of which allow businesses to connect people to information more efficiently and more cost-effectively. This technology continues to play a role in enabling life sciences IT support for global collaboration and secure access.<\/p>\n 6) IoT<\/strong> \u2013 The growth in use-cases continues. There are cameras, thermostats, in-house speaker systems, and refrigerators that can send alerts if the door gets left open or the temperature changes. By the end of 2020, we will all be getting alerts from even more devices\u2014all of which increases opportunities for security breaches. For biotech companies handling sensitive data, this makes integrated IT and security strategies critical.<\/p>\n 7) Security in the Cloud<\/strong> \u2013 Anyone worried about data security in the cloud needs to take a hard look at what they spend to protect their data in their current data center or colocation facility. Few businesses\u2014especially those in the life sciences space\u2014have the resources to match what cloud providers can offer. They have the talent, tooling, and 24x7x365 operations that most commercial environments can\u2019t replicate. Partnering with a trusted managed IT provider for life sciences organizations can ensure alignment with life sciences compliance and risk requirements.<\/p>\n 8) Cloud Management Consolidation<\/strong> \u2013 The prediction from our team of experts is that this year, we will see consolidation via acquisition in the numerous cloud and hybrid-cloud management tools. Larger providers will improve their portfolios by purchasing point-product vendor solutions, ultimately improving the end customer\u2019s ability for enterprise cloud management.<\/p>\n 9) VPN Access for Security<\/strong> \u2013 The increasingly mobile workforce will rely on secure methods to access enterprise applications in the cloud and on-premises. The questions that need to be answered based on the unique environment are where to do it and how. For life sciences companies managing clinical research or lab systems remotely, VPN design plays a critical role in secure connectivity.<\/p>\n 10) Edge Computing<\/strong> \u2013 With a link to the developments of 5G wireless and IoT, edge computing will grow in its relevance and value. Gartner defines edge computing as \u201ca part of a distributed computing topology in which information processing is located close to the edge\u2014where things and people produce or consume that information.\u201d This will be especially impactful in use cases like connected labs and real-time data analysis in biotech.<\/p>\n Best wishes on a prosperous 2020!<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f2f2f2″ custom_margin=”27px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”18px|18px|18px|18px|true|true” border_radii=”on|5px|5px|5px|5px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]\n Want to See Which of These Technologies Could Impact Your Environment?<\/strong> Discover the top 10 technologies predicted to make a significant impact in 2020, as identified by PTP\u2019s sales and engineering teams through a comprehensive crowdsourced approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,9,34,31,10],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-cloudops-archive","category-finops-archive","category-netops-archive","category-secops-archive"],"yoast_head":"\n
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