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Five predictions for cloud computing and artificial intelligence in 2020.

We are living in a post-migration era of cloud computing, according to HiveIO VP of Product, Toby Coleridge, who provided RT Insights with a list of five predictions for cloud computing and artificial intelligence in 2020.

Influxof AI in Healthcare

Theethics behind large companies harvesting medical data for artificial intelligencesystems may rage on for another decade, but HiveIO sees healthcareorganizations as the catalysts for this evolution.

As a result of datas increasing perceived value, healthcare organizations will go to greater lengths in collecting data to meet end-user demands in 2020, said Coleridge. By capturing more personal data, healthcare organizations will be able to more accurately assist patients and predict their needs.

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Coleridgebelieves that synergy between fitness brands, like Fitbit and Apple, andhealthcare organizations will occur in the next five to ten years. Biometricdata will be sent to a doctors office, which may run AI-assisted diagnosticsto recognize any problems at an earlier stage.

Automation of diagnostics will remove a lot of tedious work for the doctor, while also spotting problems quicker. The only issue, currently, is the lack of clear connections between healthcare providers and technology companies, although there are some signs the big four want to break into the healthcare market.

EducatorsUse IT To Meet Student Needs

Digitalnative students require, according to Coleridge: immediate gratification and adeeper level of knowledge and understanding. To meet this demand, educationalfacilities will continue to adopt virtual desktop infrastructure systems, whichallow students to work from remote locations, save the school money in updatingand upgrading systems, and improve security with a centralized interface.

Startingin 2020, we will see a shift in the entire education system and VDI will be akey enabler for this, said Coleridge.

On-Premisevs Cloud: Its Not An Either-Or

While a vast majority of workloads will be processed by data centers, on-premises is still relevant and will remain necessary for some companies.

In2020, we will see the conversation around data storage shift from choosingcloud or on-premise, to deciding which applications an organization should runon-premise, said Coleridge. Its not a matter of selecting one or the other,but rather, determining how both contribute to a comprehensive IT strategy.

Ciscopredicts that over 90 percent of workloads will be processed in the cloud by 2021,but that other 5-10 percent of usage will remain on-premise, and its notlikely that number will fall rapidly in the next few years.

CloudMigration Stage Will Pass

Onereason why that percentage wont drop is that the cloud migration stage isover, according to Coleridge. Cloud migration will decrease in 2020, for thefirst time since analysts predicted major migration.

Thisis because most organizations interested in implementing a cloud strategy havealready done so, said Coleridge. We will now begin to see the migration focuson automation in cloud and edge computing.

HowMuch Can We Store?

Atopic rarely spoken about in the cloud computing world is whats the limit forstorage. More and more data centers are being built around the world, and moreinformation than ever is stored on hard drives, remaining on there for decades.Coleridge expects we will start to see storage constraints in the next five to10 years, which will force the major data storage providers to build tools thatdiscard raw data while keeping primary themes.

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HiveIO Top 5 IT Predictions For 2020 - RTInsights