Prolifics, a global digital transformation leader is proud to announce that we now can help enterprises manage their applications across multiple cloud environments with IBM Cloud Satellite. IBM Cloud Satellite, now generally available, enables clients to run IBM Cloud services on any cloud, on premises, in multicloud environments or at the edge – all delivered as a service. This flexibility will help bring cloud capabilities to where client data resides, in the environment of their choice, while focusing on consistency, user experience, and security.

With its open architecture, IBM Cloud Satellite builds on IBM’s deep industry expertise and can help enterprises across a variety of industries including telecommunications, healthcare, banking, insurance, travel and transportation, transform into digital-first organizations. The need to modernize mission-critical workloads is intensifying. According to a recent IBM Institute for Business Value report, 74% of CEOs interviewed during the COVID-19 pandemic believe cloud computing will most help their organization deliver these results over the next 2-3 years. We see a cornerstone of this transformation is in edge computing. The continued proliferation of edge devices is expected to shift the amount of data that resides at the edge compared to within central data centers. As this transition takes place, IBM Cloud Satellite is designed to bring cloud services to where clients’ data already resides — and help them bridge to where they want to go.

Prolifics is part of IBM’s ecosystem of partners fueling hybrid cloud deployments by helping clients modernize applications and manage workloads on infrastructure ranging from bare-metal to multicloud and everything in between using Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform. IBM Cloud Satellite is engineered to give clients the flexibility to bring their applications to environments where their data resides while leveraging the security of IBM Cloud.

Satya Bolli, Prolifics Chairman & Managing Director, said, “Modernizing applications to enable our clients to become faster, more agile, and more creative is what we do. Deciding the right platform for the right application workloads is a critical part of the equation. We see IBM Cloud Satellite as a game changer for our clients who want an enterprise grade option to bring the convenience of a cloud experience into the control of their own data center.”

Greg Hodgkinson, Prolifics Chief Technology Officer, said, “In the Prolifics Innovation Center, we’ve crafted more than 20 of our solutions using OpenShift and the Cloud Paks as our solution platform, ensuring flexible deployment models and simplified operations across cloud infrastructure. These solutions span verticals such as healthcare and banking, and horizontals such as data science, Hyperautomation, data privacy, DevOps and testing. IBM Cloud Satellite can help us deliver this solution platform as a service across an infrastructure of our client’s choosing, enabling us to roll out our solutions with Cloud Paks quicker and more efficiently. We believe this will improve availability to users, free-up capacity in our client’s operations team, and lower long-term cost of ownership.”

Staying ahead in today’s crowded market has become indispensable than ever before. The COVID-19 crisis has prompted businesses to adapt to a novel business model not by choice, but by necessity. Leveraging technology can help them unlock breakthrough innovations. The progression in technology in the last couple of years has changed the world and it will continue to do so in the future. Indeed, emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, blockchain, and data analytics have already impacted people’s lives. So, as we are heading towards 2021, what impact such technologies will have on our daily lives and work?

Analytics Insight has accumulated here top technology trends that will redefine businesses in 2021.

The Cloud Revolution
The aggressive move to cloud infrastructures will create massive opportunities for cloud vendors. This will also give the rise to cloud-native applications, significantly yielding cloud provider’s revenue and business value. Forrester Research indicates that the global public cloud infrastructure market will reach US$120 at an annual growth rate of 35%, as the cloud continues to take center stage in the recovery from the pandemic.

Internet of Behaviors
According to Gartner, the Internet of Behaviors (IoB) has ethical and societal implications relying on the goals and outcomes of individual uses. It can glean, combine and process data from different sources such as commercial customer data, citizen data processed by public-sector and government agencies, social media, public domain deployments of facial recognition, and location tracking.

AI Engineering
AI engineering makes AI a part of the mainstream DevOps process instead of a set of specialized and isolated projects. Unlike data engineers, AI engineers don’t write code to create scalable data pipelines, instead, they excerpt data efficiently from a variety of sources, build and test their machine learning models, and deploy those models using either embedded code or API calls to create AI-infused applications. Investing in an AI engineering strategy will considerably create the performance, scalability, interpretability and reliability of AI models while delivering the full value of AI investments.

Privacy-Enhancing Computation
Privacy-enhancing computation will enable organizations to collaborate on research securely across regions and with competitors without sacrificing confidentiality. This approach is designed specifically for the growing need to share data while maintaining privacy or security. This trend features three technologies that safeguard data while it is being used.

Quantum Computing
The advent of quantum computing is giving computers a multitude of times faster power to perform operations than regular computers. Brands like Splunk, Honeywell, Microsoft, AWS, Google and many others are now involved in making innovations in the field of quantum computing.

Hyperautomation
As recent years have seen incredible growth in hyperautomation, it is a key strategic trend for 2021. The transition to robotic process automation and the increased use of this tech among businesses should drive innovation in the automation space and continue to provide enterprises value through time savings, efficiency gained, and scalability. Hyperautomation is the next level in the field of automation. Rather than referring to one single, out of the box technology or tool, it focuses on adding more intelligence and applying a broader set of tools than traditionally established automation solutions.