Cisco has compiled a list of trends that, according to the company's experts, will dominate the IT market in the coming years. Cisco expects the growing role of enterprise-centric networks that combine network innovations, including SDN, virtualization, machine learning, model-oriented APIs, and security-related developments. According to experts' forecasts, for the cyber defense companies will increasingly resort to automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The latter will also be used in the form of virtual assistants who next year will become smarter and, in particular, participate in meetings with the help of bots who can recognize speech and understand the context. Other key trends, according to Cisco experts, will be the development of cloud services and the popularization of unmanned vehicles and drones. The scope of application of quadrocopters is expanding rapidly - from inspection of pipelines and cell towers to warehouse inventory. Finally, Cisco believes in the widespread distribution of block-based solutions and foggy computing. Today, foggy calculations have extended the scope of the cloud to the edge of the network, where data is generated. To save bandwidth and provide data processing in real time, they process the mountains of data and forward for further processing to the cloud only the information that meets certain criteria.

Original article: Cisco listed the trends of the IT market for the coming years.