The main technological challenges of 2023

Cybersecurity, skills, and sustainability-these are the challenges imposed by emerging technologies that test companies in the post-pandemic era.

Table of Contents:
Accelerated technological innovation
Talent shortage
More sustainable demand
Cybersecurity
Accelerated technological innovation
The spurt of digital transformation in response to the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down yet.

Artificial intelligence, edge computing, machine learning, metaverse, NFT, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are advancing rapidly: if companies want to maintain their competitive advantage, they must stay ahead of innovation. In 2022, cloud adoption was a key driver of many of the technology trends.

The need to manage large volumes of data securely and quickly, along with other needs, is driving the adoption of new strategies especially in the cloud. Not surprisingly, its consumption is growing steadily and steadily, and over the next year, companies are expected to follow the same trend to secure access to innovative technologies and promote efficient operations and business processes.

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Talent Shortage
Rapid technological progression has given rise to a mismatch of talent with specific skills.

In a survey conducted by Gartner, a large proportion of companies cited a lack of IT experts as the main obstacle to adoption of emerging technologies, even ahead of cost and security risks.

Many CIOs have difficulty hiring or retaining IT talent given the huge demand. However, the study found that many sources of technology talent are not being tapped. For example, only 12 percent of EMEA companies offer programs to engage students through internships or training placements, and only 24 percent target freelancers.

More sustainable demand
Innovation and the rapidly changing landscape present significant challenges for technology companies. Within this framework, sustainability is rapidly moving from the exception to the rule and is gradually taking center stage, in part to meet consumer expectations.

In fact, a recent Gartner survey showed that environmental change is among investors’ top priorities. This means that companies should focus more on solutions that achieve key ESG (environmental, social, corporate governance) goals.

This is a cross-cutting trend that in IT, for example, could involve the use of renewable energy particularly resource-intensive tools such as data centers. These, in fact, are highly energy intensive, both in terms of powering and cooling them. Therefore, one of the pressing challenges is to lower energy requirements and optimize resources by limiting reliance on carbon-based sources.

Cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity will, even in 2023, be a central item on the agenda of companies as it is the backbone of digital transformation.

New solutions, however, expose companies to an ever-expanding surface of threats. In fact, companies that have decided to embark on a digitization path have been punctually confronted with a proliferation of security problems.

The growth of new forms of social engineering are forcing organizations to keep up with unprecedented and evolving attack scenarios. These include so-called callback phishing, a practice that combines traditional email-based phishing with voice phishing (also known as vishing) and is used to gain access to companies’ systems and distribute ransomware on their networks.

This dynamic implies an increased focus on practices that can waterproof business processes and strategies to ensure business continuity. In this regard, Shellrent advances a versatile solution, that is, one that can be combined with Cloud and Hosting plans: disaster recovery.

This service allows you to strengthen your data security and protection strategies, relying on storing backup copies in different regions. By setting the desired retention, you have the option of allocating backups in different geolocated data centers at least 1000 kilometers apart to ensure maximum data redundancy. In fact, in case of unforeseen events, you will be assured of recovering one of the archived copies, which will be ready to restore.