2021 Top Ten Technology Trends Perspective White Paper: Insights into the general trend of digital technology development

 A few days ago, New H3C Group (hereinafter referred to as: New H3C), a subsidiary of Unigroup, focused on cutting-edge technologies and released the "New H3C 2021 Top Ten Technology Trends Perspectives White Paper" (hereinafter referred to as: White Paper). New H3C has demonstrated its industry-leading insights through the white paper. , Combined with its own deep technical accumulation and rich first-line practical experience, to provide a strong empowerment for the high-quality development of China's digital economy.

The white paper mentions that this year is at the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The digital economy has become an important engine for social and economic growth. The long-term goal of the construction of Digital China has created a beautiful new vision of digital life for people's production and life. Facing the general trend of digital development in the future, it is necessary for all industries to work together to activate the potential of data elements, accelerate the construction of a digital economy and a digital society, and drive changes in social production methods, lifestyles and governance methods through digital transformation as a whole. Among them, the creation of a complete new digital infrastructure has become the key to promoting the development of the digital economy, and digital technologies represented by cloud computing, 5G, and AI have accelerated their integration into various industries and have become an important force driving industrial transformation and upgrading.

The white paper pointed out that the "new infrastructure" and new technologies have blossomed, and the number of connectable terminals has ushered in a new breakthrough, and the amount of data and network traffic have exploded. In 2021, the entire industry will gradually move towards high-quality boutique networks, deepen the deployment of industry virtual private networks in key industries, deepen the integration of cloud and network, strengthen the security of key information infrastructure, etc., and promote the construction of new infrastructure in an all-round way. In the future, new technologies will also help various industries to build new advantages in the digital economy, give full play to the advantages of massive data and rich application scenarios, promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and give birth to new industries, new formats, and new industries. Model, strengthen the new engine of economic development.

In addition, based on profound business practices, New H3C collided with top experts and scholars from various fields of industry, university, research and application, combined with third-party authoritative data, and put forward ten hot technology trend judgments:

1. Intelligent network makes integrated digital infrastructure. In the future, through the integration of advanced big data, AI and other technologies, we will gradually build a "trillion-level, people and things, all-time, safe, and intelligent" future network;

2. The 5G private network will promote the application of new industries. In the next five years, the global 5G private network compound growth rate will reach 40%, and breakthroughs in energy, industrial manufacturing and other fields will be achieved;

3. Silicon-optical integration promotes the rapid development of communications. Silicon-optical optical modules will account for more than 35% of optical modules in the next five years, and ultra-large-capacity silicon-optical switches are expected to be commercially available;

4. Diversified chip solutions to cope with multiple challenges, accelerated implementation of high-performance, low-power, small-size, and feature-rich chips, bringing users a better application experience;

5. Distributed all-flash memory breaks through the storage bottleneck and will be applied to more scenarios. The proportion of storage systems using this architecture will reach 35% in the next 5 years;

6. New application acceleration components promote the evolution of computing architecture. In the future, data processing units will integrate network, storage, AI, and graphics acceleration capabilities to achieve micro-level integration of computing and storage;

7. Cloud native promotes the unification of cloud computing architecture, and building cloud native infrastructure and applications has become an inevitable trend. Over 80% of new applications in the next 5 years will be cloud native applications;

8. Many problems faced by artificial intelligence will be gradually solved, and intelligent applications will usher in large-scale popularization. In the next 5 years, more than 50% of large enterprises will adopt AI in their key businesses;

9. Digital twins stimulate the infinite potential of the integration of virtual and real. In the next 5 years, the digital twin market will reach 30 billion U.S. dollars, and it will be widely used in smart cities, smart manufacturing and other fields;

10. The new operation and maintenance model has a wider layout. In the next five years, nearly 69% of enterprise operation and maintenance will transform to a new operation and maintenance model with six key capabilities with intelligence as the core.