Top 8 trending IT topics to be aware of

                               Top 8 trending IT topics to be aware of

Information Technology (IT) has registered a handsome growth in the past few years. This is a dynamic sector, as technology keeps evolving. One needs to catch up with the latest to keep themselves updated with sector. Here is a list of top eight technologies one needs to be aware of:

(1)   Software-as-a-Service:

                                           

                         

This is one of the latest technologies. It helps in hosting software on a central cloud making it accessible by clients using web browsers. Software as a Service (SaaS) has the potential to transform the way information-technology (IT) departments relate to and even think about their role as providers of computing services to the rest of the enterprise. The emergence of SaaS as an effective software-delivery mechanism creates an opportunity for IT departments to change their focus from deploying and supporting applications to managing the services that those applications provide. A successful service centric IT, in turn, directly produces more value for the business by providing services that draw from both internal and external sources and align closely with business goals.

(2)   Cloud:

       

                                               

Cloud technologies use network of isolated servers hosted on internet to store, manage, and process data. The easy scalability of cloud services allows companies to easily optimize their costs based on usage levels, instead of having to worry about peak demands. The cloud has enabled businesses to focus more on their business, and less on the technology required to run it.

(3)   Mobility:

      

                                                

This is related to wireless networking for transfer of data. The next phase is having advanced feature including beam forming and multiuser MIMO. Every enterprise is now focusing on the mobility for its growth.

(4)   Bring Your Own Device:

                              

 Bring your own device (BYOD) also called Bring your own technology (BYOT), Bring your own phone (BYOP), and Bring your own PC (BYOPC),refers to the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications. The phenomenon is commonly referred to as IT consumerization. The term is also used to describe the same practice applied to students using personally owned devices in education settings. BYOD brings freedom to employees to choose his own gadget for workplace. It helps them to be more productive and also saves cost of employers.

(5)   Software-defined networking:

                             

Meeting current market requirements is virtually impossible with traditional network architectures. Faced with flat or reduced budgets, enterprise IT departments are trying to squeeze the most from their networks using device-level management tools and manual processes. This mismatch between market requirements and network capabilities has brought the industry to a tipping point. In response, the industry has created the software-defined networking (SDN) architecture and is developing associated standards. 

Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to computer networking that allows network administrators to manage network services through abstraction of lower-level functionality.

SDN lays down the tools that help to virtualize the network infrastructure. Its key role is to provide                   programmatic interfaces into network equipment.

(6)   Internet of Things:

                                      

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a scenario in which objects, animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. IoT is expected to offer advanced connectivity of devices, systems, and services that goes beyond machine-to-machine communications (M2M) and covers a variety of protocols, domains, and applications. The interconnection of these embedded devices is expected to usher in automation in nearly all fields, while also enabling advanced applications like a Smart Grid.

Things, in the IoT, can refer to a wide variety of devices such as heart monitoring implants, biochip transponders on farm animals, electric clams in coastal waters, automobiles with built-in sensors, or field operation devices that assist fire-fighters in search and rescue. These devices collect useful data with the help of various existing technologies and then autonomously flow the data between other devices.

IoT has become one of the most used and trending technologies in the industry. In this technology many devices can be connected and controlled using internet. IoT represents all the gadgets that contain IP address and can transfer data with internet connectivity.

(7)   Big Data:

      

Big data is a broad term for data sets so large or complex that traditional data processing applications         are inadequate. The tern often refers simply to use of predictive analytics or other certain advanced         

methods to extract value from data and seldom to a particular size of data set. Accuracy in big data may lead to more confident decision can mean greater operational efficiency, cost reductions and reduced risk. 

Big data is a set of techniques and technologies that require new forms of integration to uncover large hidden values from large datasets that are diverse, complex, and of a massive scale.

Relational database management systems and desktop statistics and visualization packages often have difficulty handling big data. The work instead requires "massively parallel software running on tens, hundreds, or even thousands of servers". What is considered "big data" varies depending on the capabilities of the users and their tools, and expanding capabilities make Big Data a moving target. Thus, what is considered to be "Big" in one year will become ordinary in later years. "For some organizations, facing hundreds of gigabytes of data for the first time may trigger a need to reconsider data management options. For others, it may take tens or hundreds of terabytes before data size becomes a significant consideration."

So Big Data is essential for big organizations and enterprises that deal with Terabytes, Petabytes and Exabyte of data.

For more info on Big Data refer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D1CQ_LOizA

(8)   IPv6:

Internet Protocol version 6(IPv6) is the most recent version of Internet Protocol (IP), the communication protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed to replace IPv4.

IPv4 can provide approximately 4.3 billion addresses. The depletion of the IPv4 allocation pool has been a concern since the late 1980’s. Now the problem with IPv4 has been solved by IPv6.

IPv6 uses a 128-bit address, allowing approximately 3.4 x 10³⁸ addresses, or more than 7.9 x 10²⁸ times as many as IPv4.

So IPv6 is the latest version of the internet protocol that cures all errors by providing an identification and location system for computers on networks. 

These are the eight trending IT topics to be aware of.