CIOInsider India Magazine
Evolution Of Technology And Associated Infrastructure
With over 17+ years of experience, Arvind has managed various industrial verticals in IT Services which includes IT infrastructure, cyber security, digital transformation, business applications (ERP/CRM), IT support operation and vendor management.
Information Technology Infrastructure has evolved drastically in the past 3 decades in term of Mobility, Computing power or AI, and is still under evolution. This evolution process is like ours i.e. humans evolving from apes to cave men and then to modern humans. Our evolution has been stagnant for the past few 1000 years, but we do not see any stagnation in Technology Infrastructure.
As the time passed and demand for high computing, data bandwidth and mobility increased, the scenario changed and evolved in omni directional areas in a way that no one imagined.
Now after 30 years, we have millions/trillions time faster computing power, Gigabyte data speed, enhanced mobility and telecom solutions.
1. Computing Power: Multi core multi socket (up to Deca+ core Processing capability having clock at 3+ GHz per core)
2. Gigabyte / Terabyte Memory,
3. Petabyte Storage (Hybrid storage, iSCSI, NAS SAN),
4. 100s of Gbps data transfer capability (FC, FCoE, LANFi).
5. Converged/Hybrid technology (Cloud Computing)
6. Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
If we examine the last 10 years, initiation of merging of IT and telecom as one entity, technology not only made it possible to hold personal computer and land line in our palm (in form of smart phone and tablets) but also allows us to roam along with it (BYOD, Hybrid and converged networks) e.g. cloud computing. This is leading to digitalization of Business which connected all of us anytime anywhere via mode of social/eCommerce and other platforms.
Data bandwidth and mobility increased, the scenario changed and evolved in omni directional areas in a way that no one imagined
Now Google glasses, self-drive vehicles etc. with technology like IoT & Machine learning (AI) have made us think of humanoids (The future).
We have accelerated business demand, supply and operations effortlessly by reducing human effort with help of enhanced IT infrastructure and technology platform.
Security Concern / Threat: The more we progressed in Technology, the more we are challenged by security threats e.g. virus, malware, phishing/hacking attacks etc. Now a days IT security has become a major concern for any organizations and will remain forever, since technology enhancement not only helps organizations but also helps these threats to get enhanced and become more powerful. In the whole journey, something is missing on day to day basis, which is human touch. Hope it can be brought back.
